Driving
three bundles of love
to nowhere specific
but loving
the journey

I am buried
deep
beneath an emotion
that does not have my name
on it.

I will not
not because I cannot
but simply because I will not
anymore
rage
for the single cause of rage
it is not worthy
anymore.

I will not drop our love
I may not love our love
tonight
or want our love
tonight
or seek our love
tonight
or need our love
tonight
or know our love
tonight
or like our love
tonight
but still
I will not drop our love

Do you see?
Don’t stare
Just glance
Do you see?
A better version of you and me
And humanity
Do you see
Don’t stare
Stand back
Wish
And glance
Breath in
Let’s take this chance

You’re trouble
this much I knew
from the moment
you stood there
boldly
and
answered
right back

I don’t
remember a time
I was me
without you

He is grown now
handsome and proud
I am old now
bewildered and cowed
but…

You teach me things
I didn’t know
I needed to know

I will take my expensive wine
if you don’t mind
and my conversation
jump in a taxi
short trip
to someone
more kind.

Thank you
for
getting the point of me
and still loving me
when
I struggle
to get the point
of us

I see you
maybe
for the first time
and the seeing
hurts my eyes.

After this long time
we’ve seen it all
round of applause
for us
just can’t help thinking
shame
we didn’t see it the same way

You burn me
not so much that anyone can see the
scorch
on my palm
my hand
my face
my soul
pain that leaves no mark
is a true artist’s
greatest work

Don’t leave me to stand all alone
I fear I will bend over
and break an important bone

There are seven
wonders of the world
and three of them
are sitting here
right here
right now
at home
with me.

You wash over me
with your wisdom
you silence me
with your voice
you know me
with your love

You and me
are just a tale of
a heart
defining chance

if it all fell apart tomorrow
and why wouldn’t it
I would still applaud  the
fact
that we tried

God, your words are lovely
they fall about me like confetti
they are a celebration
a happy song
I am the bride
dressed in white
a celebration
your words are lovely
yet empty
celebrate your words
they are empty
like a bride lost
in confetti

Do you remember we swapped toys
when we were five
Do you remember we swapped promises
when we were ten
Do you remember we swapped kisses
at fifteen
Do you remember we swapped dreams
when we were twenty
Do you remember we swapped tears
at twenty five
Do you remember we swapped lovers
when we were thirty
Do you remember we swapped lives
at thirty five
Do you remember we swapped lies
at forty
Do you remember we swapped partners
at forty five
Do you remember we swapped kids
at fifty
Do you remember we swapped dreams
at fifty five
Do you remember you swapped life
when you were sixty .

When everyone said
dust yourself down
get up
wake up
don’t wear a frown
you said
take my hand
lay down
tomorrow
you’ll own this town

Someone like you
was never meant for
someone like me
it was always meant to be
a casual affair

It’s complicated
and I am too
there was a map here
yesterday
lost it
somehow
somewhere
Can’t find it
anywhere
Can you?

If we are going to write
let’s write clever
otherwise
it’s a useless
endeavour

Your love hit me
like a bullet in the dark
it came from nowhere
but it’s surely left its mark

Today surprised  me
I wasn’t
expecting
the sun!

You want me to understand that
you have wasted your life
believing
what your mother said
she believed what she said
she had no choice
but she never wanted you
to believe it too.

When did we become a
love song
that no one sings
anymore

You make me laugh
when I’don’t want to laugh
you make me cry
when I don’t want to cry
you make me listen
when I don’t want to hear
you make it clear
when you’re not even here
you make it right
in the dead of the night

There is nothing much worth
saving here
you say
except perhaps our child
I say

‘Read this’ I said
it’s so good
I don’t have time for poetry, Mum’
she said
I choose to dance instead.’

I see you
although
I desperately
look
the other way

This is so much better
Than I expected
and you
God,
so much more than
I deserve
even for me

Here’s a poem about nothing
because nothing says more
than the rest of us could ever say
if we tried all day tomorrow
and the rest of today

Let me be the youngest
and say
somehow
we went astray
but there is no rulebook
that says
we have to stay
this  way.

These are little pieces
in the real world
fragments that
have become undone
if you reach to touch them
they will disappear
like smoke upon touch
the little pieces
that today
seem so much

I could talk
all night
yet still
barely
erase
my lie

They are grown men now
I watch over  them from afar
they have their wives and rings
and slings
and other things
that bind them
and make them sing
sometimes I want to scoop them up
one in each arm
like long ago
throw them in the back of my car
and sing out loud
ridiculous
melodies
laugh out loud
to
lyrics
born
inside my car.

the girl is not not in love
she is just not  totally
in love in love
either.

You said
you would love me anyway
I know your way
and I know my way
And I know
we are not destined to be
each other’s
anyway.

I heard what you said
about the end of me
and you
I still love you
enough
to never
tell anyone
it
simply
is
not true
but
we both know  
that
you know that
too.

I am searching for
myself
and those I do not know
deep in a world
where truth is not
the enemy

You dropped our love today
I think when you left early
for work
I saw it as I left with the kids
tossed to the side
I think the postman caught it
in his heel

I will trade
all the best of my
tomorrows
for the worst of your
yesterdays
and then some!

I don’t need to know
the way home
I might not be heading
that way

We are deep
into
another bottle of
conversation.

We are deep into a
conversation
there is no turning away from
you should have backed out
ten minutes
ago

Please forgive my words
if you find them harsh
they are born from
the ashes
of my badly cracked heart.

I’ve made it this far
nothing or no one
not even you
will drag me back
to  what I am running
from.