There are more than
a thousand ways to
make life good
and all of them
include you

I am constantly surrounded
exhausted
exploited
by opinions
that mean nothing to me
constantly searching
screeching
for something
that makes sense
to me

You played my love
like the sweetest violin
the music so sweet to me
I couldn’t see the begin
I was soaked in gin
I couldn’t see the
begin
the begin
forgive me
I couldn’t see the begin.

Emptiness
invades the room  now
it falls like confetti from your lips
and scatters truth
into the abyss

Thank you
I will take your compliment
and run with it
just as far as
As I can go !

If you ever get the point
or even come close
call me
can’t promise I will answer
but still
call me
real is always worth a try.

I will never hold a sword to you
nor a weapon
except perhaps
a mirror
for I know it will wound you
deeper
upon reflection.

I’m not a saint
not quite good enough
I’m not a sinner
not quite bold enough
yet

Lay your feelings down on me
God knows
I have laid mine heavily
upon you

I lost you
just can’t remember where
somewhere in between last night
and here
or maybe somewhere
in between last year
and there
just can’t remember
when
or where........

I know the meaning of love
I know you say
you do too
and perhaps  you do
but
I know the meaning of love
the crying out loud of love.
the desperate despair of love
the doubt of love
the reaching out of love
the pure joy of  love
the desperation of love
the don’t do this of love
the endless hope of love
the not feeling all right of love
the wonder if this is love
the question of can this be love
the sadness of love
the screaming out of love
the tears of love
the pure joy of love
the I can’t do this anymore of love
the right of love
the wrong of love
the me in love
I know the meaning of love
I know you say
you do too
and perhaps you do.

When the party
is almost done
and the songs
are almost sung
and we are having
almost fun
that’s the time
I almost
run.

I will not
leave now
not because
I am brave or honest
but because
I have no leave
left

I can lie easy
with the lie
can you?

he bought me
diamond rings
champagne
and other things
paid off my mortgage
it was quite an engage
for a moment
for a beat
I was there
until he said
you are amazing
what’s your name?

There is no love
like your son’s  love
it is there
to rise you high
and catch you
on the low
your little boy’s arms
are now strong enough
to hold you
and heal you
What joy!

when it was
one thirty three
you said
you loved me
by three thirty three
you had already left me

Meet me at the bar
next door
the neighbours are tired
of hearing us roar.

I am your
shadow
I will always
misbehave.

If I could send you
two thousand bouquets
or more
I surely would
instead
what I can send
is
one word
Love.

There are but
two words
that matter in my
world
and  in my heart
You
and
my  crazy family
maybe that makes it
three

Look up . he said
when I could barely look anywhere
life burdens the innocents
and lays their lair bare

My fire has just about
gone now
See the tiny flicker
left alight
I think that’ is probably
my soul
for your sake
and mine
please
do not
exhale

Nothing bores
me more
than random poems
desperately
trying to even
the score!

We are
liquid
which is both
our strength
and our
weakness

Nothing speaks to my soul
more
than  the words
you never say.

I cannot love myself
after loving you

are we two
a
costly mistake
or
a beautiful embrace?

the snow
always made a movie
of your life
viewed from your
absolutely
perfect house
until the snow
slowly
turned
into rain.

If I have been untrue
please know
it had nothing whatsoever
to do with you
it was all about me
absolutely nothing
whatsoever
to do with
You

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

I know
everyday
you watch over me
and my ridiculous
struggle
to simply just
Be.

How come I go to sleep with you
yet wake up
alone

she tried to hide
the boredom on her breath
but he caught it anyway
she tried to hide
the loneliness in her heart
but he felt it anyway.

I will take back my words
now
in case you should stop
someday
soon
and see them standing
starkly
before you

The words flowing
easily from my brain
tonight
are everything I ever wanted to say
to you
too much
you say
a bit insane
yet still
my words flow easy
flow easy
for the first time
from the inside of my brain
insane
you say
maybe
you’re right

Seriously?
just pour me
a  different
life.

let it be
let it lie
if you will
let’s be still
yes, I will
I will be still
a bit  against
my will
but I will
nevertheless be still
at least
for now

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

All of this
means nothing
the grandeur
the opulence
the pride
if we are both dead
inside

I cry my tears
inside
because
otherwise
they would stain
my lily white
disguise

Let’s dance!

When we are all
piled up and held up
and ******* and styled up
maybe then
and only then
when we all feel safe
we will eventually start to think
about escape

There is
just a little too much talk in this room
random words
escaping from well formed empty
lips
vacuous thoughts
escaping and taking form
causing laughter
but not reform
there is
just a little too much empty
frivolity
in this room

Read my words
and know
in the simplicity
and confusion
of them
you
have a chance
to know me

I just cannot write the words
that I want
cannot find them anywhere
so I won’t
I will leave it
and try again tomorrow

When I left you
I didn’t realise
there was a tiny morsel of you
sewn into my heart
forever

God, it’s raining hard tonight
most of it are pieces of my heart
don’t try to save them
as they splatter across your path
I have enough left inside me
it’s not quite
a bloodbath
yet

All this
I am grateful for
All this
I hate us for

I am looking for you
seems like
I am looking through you
where did you go?