To all of you who feel hurt and pain.
Who felt they weren't part of the game.
Who felt so ashamed.
When they were called a name.

Who felt the stab of pain.
With everything to lose and nothing to gain.
Who thought they were to blame.
And they were the ones who weren't sane.

Who feel they cause the pain.
Names branded on skin by the heat of a flame.
They wanted you to be the same.
Toe the line fit the frame.

You don't have to feel the pain.
No longer need to feel the shame.
The fact that you are not the same.
Makes you special worth more than just a name.

Wish I could float
I would hover above this broken body
A kiss would take the pain with its lips
A whisper would leave my bones in peace
A look would raise a smile on my pain etched face
I'll await a healing warm embrace

Soaked to the skin
A glimpse of the body
My soul resides in
A window to the mind
I don't just write words
I live them

Goodbye
I shall leave my memories where they belong
You tear me apart
Don't haunt me with our history
Be present in the future
Don't leave me to bleed
Tears
For the days that I'll miss
Sigh with the hope that given time
We will look into the past of better times
Be proud that we did all we could
The ripples echoing
We changed the world
Didn't we?

Face serene in its beauty
Pain etched on her perfect porcelain skin
Smile gives away her vulnerability
Fragility surfacing from deep within

Did you really believe you could just kick me in the teeth.
Try and knock my self belief?
Your attempt to punish has come as a blessed relief.
What did you think you'd achieve...
When you picked at the scars others left
Good grief... You thought I'd stay right where you left me
What lies beneath?
You will find the answer in my laughter
I believe in my happy ever after
What exactly were you after?

One minute of everything
Not hours of something
One minute
Numbed by feelings of all
Not hours of nothing much
One minute
Then hours of remembering you
Not hours of nothing
Then one minute forgetting you

She stands by the railings wearing that knowing look
Her dog waiting patiently by her side
Platform two
I catch a glimpse of red
Torn apart as the Windows go rattling by
Memories come back to visit me
She knew what was to become of us
Her star guides me back to the heart of our past
Clacketty clack
Drum beat, feet tap
until we meet again
on platform two

One life. One chance. One me. One you. One love. One question. One or two?

The history is written in the lines on your face
My fingers trace the furrowed brow
The giggles in your dimples
The beauty of your memories
I can touch your laughter
I taste the tears running down your cheeks
Was it my words that made you cry?
Let my thoughts be the smile in your minds eye.

Look look look
Can you see?
I mean really see
Stop, pause, breathe
Look around
Then focus
Open your eyes
Wide
Look with your ears
Look with your mind
Look with your skin
Look look look
Did you see?
I mean really see
Did you?
Stop, pause, breathe?
Look
Around
Then focus
With open eyes
So wide
Did you hear?
Did you think?
Did you feel?
Now you see
You can really see
You, yes you, you
And that's enough
It's enough for all of us
You you you
We could see you
Now you can see you too

I am the breeze you feel on your tear streaked cheek
I am the words that are carried on the wind
I am the voice of the birds that herald the morning
I am the water that quenches your thirst
I am the fight that means you can put one foot in front of the other
I am the shadow that looks over your shoulder
I am the game you wish you played
I am the hands you clasp to pray
I am the knees you fall onto
I am the suns rays that penetrate the dark
I am the dreams that scare your nightmares away
I am the yes that answers your doubts

I fall on my face when I want to fall on my feet
My heart beats fast when I want to go slow
I get worked up when I should work out instead
I feed my broken body then starve  my soul
Had my head in the clouds...when my ear should have been to the ground.

He would wash the sorrows from my skin
He would kiss away the pain with his lips
He would stand beside me and hold my hand
He would teach me to count my blessings
He would walk in time to the beat of two hearts instead of one
His bones would no longer ache with the bruises
His blood would flow freely from head to toe
His skin would sigh with the knowledge he'd found home

Your warm embrace,
your face With it's amazing grace-
fullness of heart.
Right at the start,
from the moment you spoke to me
Your soft caressing words...
I can't explain,
the day our heads became
A force to be reckoned with.
My huge soul with a gaping hole is filled with light.
The truth in your voice,
I have no choice...
To follow in your foot step-
in time to the beat of the blood flowing through your veins.
I can't explain,
the day our hands became
a brain to write with...
My lifeless bones within the skin you wrap around them,
are filled with hope.
The wounds are healing scars from the past.
I breathe out me so I can breathe in you.
I can't explain,
The day our feet became
the beat to push us forward
To light and life I raise a toast to the force that brought us together.
I have no choice
but to hear your voice
Now and forever.

I will walk down that road
Because I can finally see
What you were trying to do to me
Then you will be able to see too
What you are supposed to do
You know in your heart
You knew at the start
We spent too long apart
I was blind you see
Blinded by the tears of grief
You didn't see beneath
You didn't scratch the surface to see what was underneath
I thought you were giving me my self belief
You were greedy thinking two was a better number than one
When all is said and done
And you have had your fun
I'm still not going to be number one
Where was your strength and courage to belong
I opened up my chest let you hold that heart
Where blood exchanged for a part of you
So you run through my veins you gave me life when all was lost
I held on to hope at all costs
Now all the blood has drained away
I realise you weren't meant to stay
And you and me have had our day
I won't forget what's in my head
I will hold it high as I walk on by
Down my path with a clear blue sky
my path will follow a different route from the one I thought
I will take the lessons I've been taught
The only thing I have are questions to ask
To ask of myself
I will open my eyes and live the life I dreamed
Of the destiny not the uncertainty
So on this note I will leave
for I no longer believe in the us you thought we could achieve
Don't look back in anger
Look forward and remember
What was good...
honour our memory
For you never really belonged to me.

I looked at it in wonder,
then carefully wrapped it up in tissue
and placed it on a shelf called some other day.
I held it in my hand for a while,
then folded it in brown paper ******* with string
and hid it in a drawer called one day.
I sat and wore it on my face
then boxed it up labelled it with words
and put it to the back of the cupboard called yesterday.
I gave it to you for a time,
then you handed it back with a smile.
Show it to everyone in your world called today.

Always
Always did
Do now
Always will.

When the sun fades
And all that's left are echoes of shadows
When the day seems to drag it's heels  
And doesn't want to give itself to the night
You will find a place at the setting of the sun
A place where the ribbons of safety will encircle your body
Your bones will sigh with the relief of stillness
Your skin will weep tears of sadness
Your head will be filled with the whispers of silence
Shed your lives by the river bank
let the water cleanse your feet
Let peacefulness be your home
For the full circle is now complete.

If I take a breath will you take the next?
I wish I had your time again.

Look into his eyes
Do you have the time
To give him the peace in your mind?

You may see the rags
But they are the feathers
I wear with pride
For they are mine
They tell a story of the journey
I Will always have in my perfect mind

You won't see me again
But you will search every day
You taste the regret
In the words you never said
You dream me into reality
Then wake with empty arms

She was.
So I can be the person I'm supposed to be.
And the person you will become.