I have had a missing person alert
out for you
for most of my life
so don’t show up all shiny
this late
without a decent
excuse

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.

if I could
be anyone
in the world
I could be
I would wake up
tomorrow
and be you

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

I have walked so many miles
for your smile
I just need to catch my breath
now
for a little while

There is a whole village
waiting for your return
and within that village
a whole family
praying that you burn

give me your love
the very best of you
I will inhale it
without care
for that is what I do.

I wanted to write
just
one word
for you
I thought
that might
prove
the depth of
my love
but
I can’t .

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

I’ve searched my whole life
for true love
woke up this morning
and there it was
asking if I wanted a bacon sandwich
or two
Who knew?

I can leave
that’s the easy bit
I can walk away
but can you
in your madness
ever stay away?

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

I see
you want me to applaud
your love
but
sadly I can’t
on this occasion
happily
I’m all clapped out

I’m sorry
that
I love
out loud
Are you?

Take my nothing
and turn it into wine
then we can drink all night
hands in heart
from a cup
more or less
devine.

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

I am so bored with being
a pedestrian
tomorrow
I am going to jump on your bike
or hyjack your
car

Give me your heart
and I will put it with mine
away forever
secure in a safe
the combination known
only
to us

I wish it was simple
I wish a word
could make it all go
away

I see you
and you look like home
I turn away
but home is always where
the heart is.

I think you know me
more than I know me
so I’m going to let you
do all the talking

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 best of you
bleeds effortlessly
into the worst of me
so that I wake up
refreshed
relaxed
resultant
resilient
and free.

Your voice
I don’t hear
Your breath
is not clear
Your love
no longer dear

In all honesty
so far
in my life
I have at least
spoken
two billion words
that were
untrue
how about you?

Two hundred people boarded the boat
set sail for paradise
About one hundred fell to the side
about fifty dried up and cried
twenty five turned away and died
Fifteen never replied
nine ran away to hide
just one of us
disembarked
disillusioned
dishevelled
delirious
downhearted
drowned
but still alive.

She rarely left her own mind
and when she did
the outside seemed
so unkind

I am offering my hand
and even now
I know it is not enough
to save us
but still
I am offering my hand
reach out
know this
I will lose it
before
I will deny this

I love
the little bits of life
that present themselves
to me
unexpectedly
in a carpark
on a rainy
Tuesday night

You left before me
but
you didn’t take me with
you

When you said
you were sorry
I thought
you meant it

I will only ever
fall back
as  far
as you
you can
catch
me

We are so close to happy now
It’s almost obscene
We are so close to happy now
We may never have to come
clean
We are so close
to
happy
now

I went to sleep last night
with someone
I hardly know
I woke up this morning
with someone
I don’t want to know
I went to sleep last night
like I always do
alone.

I ask you to say something
anything will do
throw me a bone
but I suspect
your words
are torn
like your life
autumnal leaves
scattered
and torn

You have left a stain
on my soul
and my home
like blood
it seeps endlessly
effortlessly
freely
into my bones

Let me just settle
your presence
upon my skin
let me just understand
this is a begin.

Thanks
lovely but
honestly
not  quite enough

I lost love today
was  sure I put in my pocket
before I left home
wrapped up and tight
saw it when I found my keys
smiling at me
reliable and bright
parked the car
and it was there
secure and steady
always made me heady
had it thru the day
because I was light
and a little gay
came back home without a care
now I can’t find it anywhere

Leave all of your love
strewn. carelessly
across the floor
anything less
you know
I would abhor

Tonight
Right here
Right now
I miss you
Probably more than I will miss you
yesterday
more than I missed you
tomorrow
right here
Right now
I miss you
I miss you
but
I quieten my screams

How did I get so lucky
what in the world did  
I do
to have such beautiful humans  
love me
as you do.

Everybody gets bruised
some of us
hide it
some of us
shout it
either way
everybody gets bruised

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 .

Can I just say
last night
I fell in love with you
all over again
and I suddenly remembered
when

I know you couldn’t leave me
if you tried
You know I couldn’t leave you
if I tried
and so the golden ink
of trying
burns sacred scars
upon our souls.

You know what
we could have made it
we only had the last two steps
to climb
you fell back
and we collapsed

One day
probably not today
or tomorrow
but one day
probably  
not tomorrow
but one day
that looks
a bit like
today
tomorrow
I hope I end up
today
with you

I am drowning in your
laughter
saturated by your
love
amazed by your joie de vivre
enchanted by your
dance
impressed by your last
stance
weakened
by your glance