Every time we say
goodbye
a little bit inside. each
of us
becomes
totally
useless

I might as well
be someone else
for all the authenticity
left inside
of me.

Tomorrow is such a different
world
away
from me
and you
tonight

Photographs
hidden in my bottom drawer
appear
uninvited
into my dreams
tonight
and suddenly I awake
right where
I started from

I believe
this is it
I believe
we got there
I believe
this is enough
I believe
we know
I believe
the scars
won’t show
beneath our clothes
or our eyes
I believe
no-one will  ever hear
our cries

It’s just the flame
that interests me.

Know this
if you know nothing
I was always
on the right side
of real

I am a book
without words
I am a song
without tune
I am a poem
without rhyme
I am a movie
without sound
I am a play
without plot
I am a painting
without colour
I am a sculpture
without stone
I am a woman
without name.

Of all the people
I have ever met
You are probably the
best

she cannot be
who she wants to be
so she spends her day
being who
she is expected
to be.

I know
Know this
if you know nothing else
know this
I know
and I think
I probably
always did

I love you
more than I have words for
so I will hush now
let silence
take the lead
for once.

I love the jagged edges
of you
they sometimes cut
but will always be
the best part
of you

I knew lots of things
before I met you
Yet
day by day
hour by hour
minute by minute
second by second
they all left me
bled out of me
day by day
hour by hour
minute by minute
second by second
until eventually
I was just left
with me
and me.

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!

If only the best part
of me
could be a little bit more
like the worse part of you
and you could see that too
then maybe
we could all make
it through

You know I love you
probably always will
but just not
today
Is that okay?

You are the woman
I always wanted
to be

There are three thousand miles
between us
three thousand reasons
not to believe that
this love
could be real

Let’s dance
all night
let’s dance
all life!

The day slowed down
and almost stood still
Silence creeped all around me
poised for the ****
The day slowed down
and almost stood still
Despair nipped at my ankles
devoured my will

Love
it comes
and glows
then disappears
like smoke
upon touch

I will go down with this ship
or die
trying.

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

I have such a million words
inside my head tonight
forgive me if I just throw them
on a page tonight
I can’t make sense of them
tonight
I can’t make them fly
like they deserve
tonight

I think
I keep
our love young
Do you?

Light a light for me
I will see it
eventually

I understand why
You don’t understand
Why I don’t
understand
You
Do you?

There is nothing in this world
more precious
to me
No metal
No stone
than your voice
on the other end of the phone

Beautiful
is misinterpreted
everyday
Beautiful
is strived for
everyday
Beautiful
is cried for
everyday
Beautiful
is before you
everyday
Beautiful
is lost to you
everyday
Reach!

Do not drip feed me
your love
drown me in emotion
and over the top words
scare me with honesty
and silence

how strange
between us now
that silence
shouts

This is nice
I said
this is love
he said
No,
this just nice like
I said

You will so soon
be in the place of your dreams
you will lay your head
exactly where you schemed
your struggle
will be forgotten
your journey
ill begotten

and then
yet again
as usual
it was
just us

I left before
you
that was my only
crime

afterwards
I regretted the words
that I had said
but not half as much as
I regretted
the life
that I had led.

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

Woke up early
and tripped over all the unkind words
left scattered on the floor
from last night
binned them
before either of us
have to claim them

She knows all there is to know
and just a little bit more
and yet
she goes to bed
tries to sleep
then realises
she knows
to much awful
to sleep

I will leave my words here now
scattered upon the floor
as I have
so many times before
gather them or discard them
reject them or suspect them
scorn them or pity them
love them or lose them
or simply dismiss them
as you have done
so many times before

I have no words left
Seriously
I used them all up
Before I was three
Now they tell me
Be careful what you say
you are too old now
Be careful what you say
No one told me that
I would use all the free words
up
before
the age of three

This is not enough
I am lost
furious
incomplete
I am bored
with myself
and you
and this house
and this life
I am off
Yes
I am off
watch me go
watch me
and  know this
if you know nothing
else
I am going
nowhere
absolutely nowhere
without you!

All right then
lets leave it now
lets park it at the door
you are right
And I
well, I am just the girl
who agreed
to park it at the door

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

You want to be stronger than me
you are
You want to be higher than me
you are
You want to be better than me
you are
You want to be taller than me
you are
You want to be richer than me
you are
You want to be smarter than me
you are
You want to be fancier than me
you are
You want to be more wanted than me
you are
You want to be heard more than me
you are
You want to be more revered than me
you are
You want to be funnier than me
Oooops
You are not !

If your smile  did not make it
real
If your love did make me
Feel

Everyone says
truth sets you free
but
what if
truth is a lie

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

Like my smile
and let me like yours
honestly,  it’s so much easier
than all the love
and adores