My life has faced some hard times indeed
An emotional roller coaster made my heart bleed
When darkness arrives on my final day
It’s “goodbye dear world” last words I say

My final journey is to heavens gates
My road ahead is all our fates
The day arrives light shines from above
God is waiting to share all his love

Past friends and family are waiting for me
Many tears where shed when I was lost at sea
In heavens world all pain is banished
My past loved ones whom had vanished
They wait for me with tears in there eyes
It’s a different world full of surprise
It’s a world of beauty to have and to hold
Where every second is precious as gold
I look over my shoulder at dear mother earth
I shed a tear for loved ones still down there
One day you will share the same journey as me
When it arrives together we will be
It’s a place of beauty love is everywhere
We speak of memories the good times we shared
On the final time that you sleep in your bed
It’s the final journey “it’s your road ahead”

David Swinden© 19/2/2016

The funeral took place on a beautiful sun kissed day
As the mourners gathered, in pain with nothing to say
The coffin was draped in flowers in words of mum
Many tears rained but in blue skies remained the sun
The priest paid tributes of past days in her life
And spoke of her marriage sixty years a loving wife
It was so painful as alzheimer's slowly crumbled her
Slowly her thoughts turned to clay, going nowhere
A prisoner in her own brain she sat with a vacant stare

How can there be a god when someone’s life ends like this
On that night she slowly faded her children gave her a kiss
In the final moments it was goodbye to the mum they miss
In the arms of angels for her final sleep in peace and bliss
The children she gave birth too where five boys and a girl
She has now made her final journey and left this world
But her memories remain intact by those left behind
Her love still lives on although it’s painful in all there minds…...

Fictional for now.

David Swinden© 14/2/2016

Cancer my barriers you are breaking down
I keep on swimming until I drown
Biopsy results with cell abnormalities
Is it the start of another fatality?  
Again I'm waiting for more test results
I keep on searching... is it all my fault?
So many questions but silence remains
In emotional turmoil I feel the strain
As they continue to run more tests
I will remain under constant threat
It's a question of time and falling down
I will keep on swimming until I drown

4th February Cancer Day

I wait for you on a cold winters night
My breath visible in the stillness
But patiently I wait for your warmth
Your smile... Your touch... I want...
Each piece a part of a special puzzle
That enraptures and fills me with delight

In the shadows I see you approach
I want to rush over to you and embrace
But this one single moment I wont encroach
My heart begins to race my breath more visible
To hold you in my arms this moment unlivable
I wait.... You smile.... as you draw closer.....

I cherish this special moment within my reach
Sapphire eyes and crimson lips in moonlight
I trace my fingers down your face.... so beautiful
My body shakes with just one touch.... precious delight
Savoured.... Cherished.... special moments adorned
Before the kiss on your crimson lips a new love is born

David Swinden©

Broken Heart

No words of wisdom spoken the silence said it all
I knew it was coming when I took your call
My heart broke in two, I always loved you
No more warming embrace, emptiness in it's place
I will never love anyone like you again
For now in mourning the poets pen remains

20/11/14 David Swinden©

Light My World

Your beautiful and serene as the oceans
Causes my heart to race, fire up my emotions
You light my world with your radiant grace
I dream to gaze at your beautiful face

14/11/14 David Swinden©

Vanquished Of Love

A soul with no love starved of all feelings
Cast into dark stormy seas tattered and reeling
The tide and the waves draining its blood
This poor dying soul vanquished of love

22/4/2006 David Swinden©

The Last Beat of the Heart

A heart torn apart Broken and battered
With life’s dreams utterly shattered
Dark days with biting ice cold nights
Where dreams face a death with no more light
Here it lays suffering devoured of its life
With one last beat begone all of the strife

22/4/2006 David Swinden©

Wishful thinking of us entwined
Romantic meals we wined and dined
Such perfect times that we both shared
Promises of love that we both shared

Holding hands our love so divine
Wishful thinking of us entwined
Under full moon we planned our dreams
Romantically and so serene

Ecstasy with a single touch
Pleasured, enraptured by our love
Wishful thinking of us entwined
Words of love for you, I would find

Dreams we cherish sometimes die
The ones we loved have chosen lies
My broken heart for now I pine
Wishful thinking of us entwined