I think
I keep
our love young
Do you?

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

What  I wanted to say
what I meant to say
in all honesty was nothing like
the two thousand words that
spewed from my mouth
what I wanted to say
was that
in the end
I think we’ll be okay

You make
me
laugh
out loud
if thats not love
tell me
what is?

I loved who you were
when we first met
these days
you’re just a bad
impression
of me

I can do almost anything
but
even for you
I cannot deliver the
morning

are you the one?
you are singing the song
dancing the dance
talking the talk
walking the walk
you might just be in
with a chance
except
from the corner of your eye
I detect
a lie

Your love
is a love without danger
a love that
will make me laugh out loud
forever

When did you grow
into you
I must have been asleep
when did you get so brave
I must have been asleep
when did you start to behave
I must have.been asleep
when did you question the answer
I must have been asleep
when did you answer the question
I must have been asleep
when did you grow
into you

if we say stop
scream stop
shout stop
cry stop
utter stop
whisper stop
whimper stop
long enough
loud enough
enough enough
then surely
at some point
eventually
enough will be enough
at some point
surely?

my words weep
tears
my tears weep
words

always wondered
what it would be like
to be in love with someone
just as cool as you
never quite had the nerve
until now
how come it’s not all
us schoolgirls
dreamt
it would be

You and I
are going nowhere
I say
fair enough
you say
let’s go there
anyway.

how strange
between us now
that silence
shouts

If I were you
I wouldn’t bet on me
the odds are stacked
against the pureness
of your heart

If you are not sure where I am
can’t find me anywhere
not sure who I am
anymore
read my words
I’m in there
somewhere
swimming for the surface
Read.

You dug deep
into the heart of me
to find your gold
then claiming your treasure
laughed out loud
and sailed away.

I am searching for
New York City
in your eyes
wading deep
in Wall Street lies

Everyone says
in a New York Minute
I’ve been here forever
trust me
it takes
ten years!

I have been such
a stranger here
deep inside
the  inside of me
did not know
what to say
did not know
who to pay
I have been
such a stranger
here

Do not try to
dry my tears
they have been weeping
for a hundred years
from my eyes
my mothers eyes
and the eyes of others
long gone
and disappeared

I will send flowers
or a plane
if that’s what it takes
just come home
for another minute

don’t write me a letter
you know
I never learned how to read

if by chance
I never make another friend
for the rest of my life
I think I’m okay  with that
I think maybe
you are enough friend
for the best of my life.

there must be something terribly
wrong with me
the song said
I agreed
and
promptly went to bed.

Perhaps
my soul
is too old
to be sold?

You are
too close
to my heart
Back the
back off!

Early May
and the winds are still howling
been freezing us since October
could one of us
be the strength beneath it’s wing?

I watch my girl
claw herself upward
slowly and painfully
on the greased pole
of her dreams
while others
take the stairs.

Most of you
is gone from me now
snippets remain
your smile
your brown eyes
the way you saw the world
your indifference
your belief in me
your difference
to me
your belief in strange
I was not brave enough
even though we both
wished me so.

I don’t want to talk about us now
can’t you see the storm clouds
gathering to the west?

I used to wake up
slightly alive
now I wake up
go straight
to your cot
and silence both our cries

It’s just another morning
that looks a lot
like yesterday.

Yep,
I ****** up
I lost my head
you can either
blame me
hate me or
forgive me
leave me
or still love me
instead.

my heart has not yet missed a beat
if it ever were to
it would only be
because you three
were out of arms reach
to me

I am
a very expensive example
of who
not to fall in love with
you’re welcome!

we all long to write a poem
full of wisdom and wit
Shakespeare did
full of words
just like this
love and betrayal
men and entrails
lips
ruby red
lust, rarely fed
passion
emotion
hurt
rarely fed
by emotions
barely said

I am slow
to the table of love
I am always
a beat behind
beautiful
but less inclined.

I do not know
how to give myself
although I know I should
so let me give you this girl
who knows
just give her a whirl!

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

I paint words
until the colours
make no sense
You paint pictures
that make the world
make sense .

you silence me
which is. more
than anyone
has ever done before

I look in the mirror
and I see you.

After all these years
I honestly couldn’t bear
to celebrate
my wedding anniversary
with anybody else
but you!

My elation
and pure joy
of giving birth to you
is an exact match
of having a grown up
real time
beautiful
now time
conversation with you

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

the  garnish glittery
golden bits of me
faded effortlessly into
the subtle serious
silver bits of you
smelted for a bit
and became
slowly solid
indestructible undefinably
bronze.

The words that fall from my mouth
should only be for me
yet they rain upon your head
like an untuned symphony
and somehow
you turn my words
into a tune

Would you be kind enough
to direct me,
to the nearest exit
I am leaving .

Your love
makes a fool
out of my love
your love
walks ten miles more
than my love
your love speaks sonnets
my love mumbles
your love screams
my love whispers
your love
fills the room
my love
locked in a tomb