save me
and I
will save
you too
my arms
are strong
but forgive me
your arms
at least to me
right here
right now
seem
a little  bit
not strong.

I tried
you lied
you tried
I lied
between
the trying
and
the lying
somehow
somewhere
in between
the lying and
the trying
somehow
somewhere
love
started
dying.

there is nowhere
like tomorrow
no one I know
has ever been there
Come ‘on
Let’s go!

Look at your father
laugh a bit
if you will
but know this
if you know nothing else
ever
as long as you live
this
is the purest
most honest
love
you
for the rest
of your life
will ever
feel.

Thank you Dublin
for making me honest and simple
and pure
left you behind
a hundred years ago
but thank you Dublin
thank you for taking the trouble
to teach me what
decent people do
thank you for reminding me
what my father would do
thank you for giving me
the gift of the gab
thank you for all
the Irish jab
thank you for
my mam and dad
thank you for staying with me
after all these years
thank you Dublin
I miss you
and I will see you very soon!

apparently America
wants Canada
**** me
What will America want next
Me and you?

you speak words
the world cannot
stand

the dark skies and gloom
you say are
in front of you
look like fairy tales
and sunny skies
to me
so put your happy hat on
jump outside
capture a cloud
and if you can’t
just put your
happy hat on
anyway
in case
I am right
and
you are wrong

I am your
shadow
I will always
misbehave.

You are
exactly
where
you deserve
to be

if I lived
in a wide and expansive
field of cherries
I would wade out
walk the field
cut the cud
stay out all night
until I found
my friend laurence
there are bunches of cherries
everywhere
but , come on
let me be honest
Laurence's
are a little bit more
rare

It’s just the flame
that interests me.

Thanks

You are
I am
some
where
in between
it
became
no mans
land,

and in the blink of an eye
we lived
that  same old lie

I don’t know
whose life
I am living here
but if you ever come across her
do me a favour
please tell her
to call me
I would so like to
give it back to her.

I am living
in a life of luxury
I don’t recognise
anymore.

no no no
I hear you
I am
listening
trust me
I am listening
intensely
but
forgive me for asking
before we both die of boredom
what frigging point
are you trying to make?

you are my steady
**** knows
I needed
something steady

I am about
two minutes away
from falling in love
with you

oh my god,
you are so self assured
even at this late hour
let me say something
even at this late hour
I know
nothing
I have learnt
nothing
even at this late hour
I still
know nothing but
oh my god
you are so self assured
how do you do that
even
at this late hour.

I know
that you are
the absolute and
total
better part of
me
someone I could only
ever ever
aspire to be
let’s leave it there
where I started
you are the absolute
absolute absolute absolute
and total
better part of me.

when you said
nothing matters
I didn’t know
you
meant me too.

I never won anything
in my life
no sport
no quiz
no battle
late at night
I never won anything
in my life
until
both of you
little ones
grew up
and turned out
to be
alright!

to me
you are perfect
or as close as I have
ever been to
perfection
and I
am a perfectionist
so
what does that mean?

this
is a beautiful life
and my bit in it
is divine
and way more than
I deserve
in any currency
so why can I not see me
and life
from the
outside
and those who are looking in?

I want to
give you
the world
on a plate
strangely
the world says
No !

Is this it then
Is this
the best we can do?
Me and you
Come on now
Dig deep
we can do tomorrow
way better than
we did  
today.

this dance
has not been easy
you are heavy
on your feet
and I
too light sometimes
and yet
I will dance
this awkward dance
with you
a hundred times
and more
and then
a hundred times
again
and still more.

love me
if you will but
that includes all the
jagged cutting  edges
of me
not easy
I know but
they have been a part of me
for so long now
I don’t know how
to be me
without them.

I ask you to hear me
you say you do
and I believe you try
but you listen
with light ears
so the weight of my words
don’t keep you awake
all night.

You said our love
would
make a difference
I believed
but when
does that
kick in?

this
I know
is way more
important
than me.

I can’t apologise
for being me
but I can feel sorry
that you ever
ever ‘ ever fell in love
with me
I can do that
for you.

let love go
and I will too
let go of me
and
I promise
I can also
let go of you.

Ambition fades
with age
yet, I  know
if I have one shred left
inside me
it would be
to be
a little bit more
like you.

You do know
the best I can give you
is a bad reputation

New York
you were always
too much
or was that just
me?

stay exactly
as you stand
today
for me
you are perfect
and I know stuff!

I never asked
for tomorrow
I think
That was you

Just sorting through
the thrash
this morning
saw you there
from the corner of my eye
at this early hour
my goodness
who in the world
put you there?

I am a long way away
from your pain
I know that
I can’t share it
I know that
I am such a long  way away
from your pain
I know that
yet somehow
I feel it anyway.

Pour me another life
I will drink
to that
all night
and deep into
tomorrow
I suspect
you probably will too
Cheers!

I love you
means nothing
if it’s written
in sand
too close to the shore.

when you tell me
you are happy
I will close my eyes
until them
I am wide awake

words are just words
letters strung together
that someone sometime
said made sense
and no one disagreed
so someone else
sometime , somewhere
decided
if they fit together
in an agreeable fashion
its poetry
its not , my loves,
it’s just words
letters strung together
that someone , sometime
said
made sense and
no one
disagreed
and that , my friends
is all this is
letters strung into
words .

I am thankful
you are
who you are
are you ?

don’t wake me up
unless
you have something
new
to say