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

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.

Life won’t make you right
If anything
it will lead you
barefoot and ******
into a day
you are not yet ready to live
It won’t forgive
or allow any give
It will take you by the hand
then suddenly let go
disrupt the land
destroy your plan
Life won’t make you right
or alert you to the fight
It will push you
and push you
and keep pushing
until eventually
reluctantly
unsteadily
you take flight
fly well
fly straight
fly light.

Life asked
I answered
right question
wrong answer

Sometimes
don’t you think
Life shouts
just a bit too loud
makes its entrance
just a little
too bold
Misses the point
just a little
too often
allows us to sink
just a little
too low
Sometimes
don’t you think?

Before the sun rises
You show me the
Light

Light a light for me
I will see it
eventually

I am light
I think I was born this way
I’ve tried the dark
embraced the pain
but it doesn’t sit easy in my brain
I  am light
almost breezy
I want  easy
I am light
I think I was
Probably
born this way

You cannot capture light
But darkness hovers
so available
so bright

When the lights
go out
is there any doubt
where we both
should  be?

You know what they say
Last one to leave
Switch the lights off
I will never
Be the one
to switch the lights off
On us.

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

I won’t
throw you a
a line
I am
not quite
that brave

We are
liquid
which is both
our strength
and our
weakness

I think I can walk on water
I’m not Moses
I know
But still
Listen
I think I can walk on water
Fair enough
I haven’t tried yet
But still
Something tells me
That at a push
I think
I
could probably
Walk on water

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!

You are way
too small
Too tiny
too insignificant
to have anything at all to say
You can barely form a word at all
Mama
Dada
Play
What crazy first  words
you
first
say

Your love
makes me feel safe
enough to sleep
every night
without
locking
the world out

There is no safe rock
No sane mind
There is no easy route
do not look behind
There is no solid block
No ticking clock
There is no way forward
Do not break the lock

In a world of over stated words
over exposed sentiments
written in too many paragraphs
for people who honestly don’t care
I lost interest when
God, I can’t even remember
when
that’s how quickly
I lost
interest

I will stand up now
Although I am terrified by the feat
But I will stand up now
If you will too
Look over your shoulder
I am here now
Just behind the band
Passing time
In no mans land

this
what we have done
together
these little humans
we have
nurtured
together
and tossed out
into the world
together
this
what we have done
together
is way more than
we could have ever
done
apart
just stand back
give it a beat
look at them
listen to them
they are amazing
and our whole
life’s work.

Heres's life
looking at me sideways
Here’s you
looking at me too

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

we are lost at sea
the radio broken
the winds ten force
totally off course.

I am sorry
after this long time
you realized that
I am not  Cinderella
or a fairy tale
anywhere close to that
I am sorry
after this long time
You realized  
I am simply
just another
ordinarily girl
who  somehow
late in the night
haphazardly
lost
her
shoe
again!

I lost myself
the minute and moment
I surrendered
my soul
to you

I am more lost now
Than when you found
me

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

we laugh
the loudest
and fall the loudest
and hurt the loudest
and rise the loudest
of anyone I know

Just give a little
he said
dear god I’m trying
I said
just speak louder
he said
just look twice
I said
I’m dead

I see your love
It stands starkly before me
I can’t reach your love
It hides hidden behind me.

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

the girl is not not in love
she is just not  totally
in love in love
either.

Love is amazing but
love is waking up the next day
and not feeling quite
so sure  about yourself.

I will not drop our love
I may not love our love
tonight
or want our love
tonight
or seek our love
tonight
or need our love
tonight
or know our love
tonight
or like our love
tonight
but still
I will not drop our love

Let us leave our love here
where it began
where it was pure
where we were sure
that we knew better
let us leave our love here
where it is safe
and untainted
from the people
we have both
become,

Leave all of your love
strewn carelessly
across the floor
anything else
I would abhor

I
seriously suspect
this is what love
is supposed to be
you and me
No questions
No answers
I seriously suspect
this is what love
was always meant to
be
If only
they knew

I wonder how it feels
to know
I was always only and ever
in love
with you

I will take this love
and I will run with it
as far as it will take me
as high as it will make me
I will take this love
and I will run with it
and I will never look back
for fear
reality will overtake me

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

I love you
mostly
because of
who I am
when you hold my
hand.

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

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

I love you
Out
loud

our love
which was once
an event
a waterfall
a crescendo
splendid enough that
people would queue
for hours
just to to see it
I get it
I would queue too
to see
our love
our love
is now just
a trickle
that no one
is interested enough
to get out of bed for
it’s just not
that special
anymore
in all honesty
it’s just not that interesting
to anyone
not even to
to you and me
anymore

do you love
love
or just the
notion of
falling into  
something
that looks
a  lot like
what love
should look
a lot like
if you knew
what love looks
like
is that what
your love would
look like?  😁

I am
so in love. with myself
that
when you said you loved me
I thought
I was talking to
myself