Listen to me now
I may say same words tomorrow
But not in the same way
Listen to them now
The cadence
The flow
Listen to them now
Their rhyming deep and low
Listen to my words
Beating deeper
Deeper
forever slow

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.

the last time you called
you said you missed me
the last time you missed me
was when you called.

The bits I love about you  
are the little
grey bits
that fall from your designer suit
as the cameras shine
your eyes in mine
as you smile on time
I know I am playing too
but in all honesty
only for
you

Can I fall in love with you
again
can I turn the last page back
again
can I take last night back
again
can I rewrite tomorrow
again
can I unsay my words
again
can I play happy ever after
again
can I remember who we are
again
can I see you anew
again
can I be me for you
again
can I fall in love with you
again

can I let every little thing
that makes me me
flow out of me
naturally  
or do
I have to check myself in at the door?

You cannot hate me
For what I believe
Just because my believe
Is different to your believe
You cannot break me
For the words I speak
Just because my speak
Is different to your speak
You cannot judge me
For the way I live
Just because my live
Is different to your live
You cannot hate me
When you can’t even see me
You cannot
You cannot
Because in the end
You cannot fail to see
that  I am just like you
Doing what I can
Passing through

I cannot breath
because the pain
you cause
kills
my will
and my spirit
my grit
I cannot breath
because your boot
is bigger
and louder
and way more important
than my
life

Let the slow hand of
tomorrow
catch you in the palm of her
hand
because I can’t
anymore

My eyes can’t quite see you
my ears struggle to hear you
my arms can’t quite reach you
my lips cannot speak to you
my heart can’t quite love you
my sister never quite liked you.

Can we
hang on
can we
be good
can we
hold on
can we
be strong
can we
breathe on
can we
feel on
can we
live on
can we
against the odds
still believe
can we
still  breathe
on?

Can you honestly
still love me
when you don’t quite get the point
of me
anymore

You are careless about
my love
yesterday you left it in a carpark
while you shopped
today you forgot all about it
while you golfed
while you dined and whined
and laughed out loud
last night you dropped it at the door
of a club
You are careless about my love
you are careless
about
my
love

Someone like you
was never meant for
someone like me
it was always meant to be
a casual affair

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

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

The words
I love you
flow from me
gushing from the heart of me
freely
Yet
sadly
catching
just the side of you

There is an unbreakable chain
between your heart
and mine
sometimes it strains
beneath the pain
then shows us out loud
the meaning
and power
the glory
of owning
the world  renowned
always sought after
unbreakable chain

This house is way too big
for love
Our life
is way too busy for love
We need a place
smaller
Where we can
maybe find each other
a place
we feel safe
enough
To take a chance
on each other
again

In-between  the time
I think the thought
and feel the thought
and write the thought
everything has
changed

You remind me
of who I should
have been
before life
got in my way.

If  I could paint your sunrise
in the colours that you choose
trust me , I would
except I know
you haven’t paid quite enough
attention
to blue, yet.

You ask if I really see you
In all honesty
No
With you
I will always be blind

You
were
born
to save

I don’t know the answer
I don’t know if I should
I know the world will wound you
like I knew it always would
I want to run ten feet before you
Clear the way
Slay the scrub
But I don’t know which path you’re taking
Would you tell me if you could

I will forget my words for tonight
the heavy in my heart
for at least one night
I will dance with you
barefoot
although it feels like broken glass
still
for at least one night
I will dance with you
tonight

If there was anything I could do twice
Anything I could rewrite
It would be you two
because next time
I would be cool
er
ish!

Nothing
enrages me
or engages me
quite as much as
you two
I suspect
you feel the same way
too

You slip though my fingers now
like fine sand
although you grew to be you
beneath my hand
you are everyone
I ever wanted you to be
just better
than I hoped you could be
and you wear yourself
so easily
like you are exactly who you
were meant to be
you inhale the day
like it’s here to stay
or not
you make me smile
with pride
by living out loud.

You grew up
in a haze of yellow sun
champagne glasses
and endless fun
and then you
painfully
excruciatingly
became
You,

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

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

You are the love
I never knew
I had inside my heart
until
I met you

I love my boy
I love my girl
Just not sure who I am cheering for
tonight!

You breathed
only for me
I breathed
only for you
then the oxygen got tight
and we had
to choose.

The day fell away from us
glistened slightly
before decent
Into a murky blue night
Lit by the not too distant lights
of a city
that tempted
strange delights
We held firm
In our murky blue light
Far away
From the city
that tempted
us
each and
every night

Clarity is everything
When you can see clearly
When you can’t
It is simply a word
Tumbling around on someone else’s
Tongue

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

nothing
before
has ever
been
quite
as
clean
as this team

Here’s the thing
The world knows
right from wrong
and all of you do too
How did you all get so clever
While I’m still sitting here
Wondering
what to do?

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

I am closed
after being
open all hours
24/7
for twenty years
and more
I am closed
now
Permanently

Why is nobody wandering
Lonely as a cloud
In my world
Why is about guts and pain and strain
Why are there no host of golden daffodils
Hovering
Just beneath my cloud?

The fine cobweb threads
that bind your heart to mine
are old now
difficult to define
I rarely move
these days
for fear of their decline

It is very cold in the world tonight
But not as cold as it could be
If you weren’t here
Standing slightly to the left
Holding out your hand
Silencing my howl

If there is anything here at all
You want
Or desire
Take it
I am open
Like a war wound
On the battle floor
No one can reach
to save me
so I will lie here
forever
exposed
on this cold concrete floor

I see you now
in the cold light
of day
and I remember
how much
we have
forgotten

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