Of love

And loss

All is movement

Two birds in love
Eagerly fly back to each other
Together again.

I don't mean to keep you waiting
for forever and a half.
I just need to finish something
my to-do list
catch my breath.

Always moving, always squirming
I can barely hear you now.
Please stop drilling through my forehead.
Just in time I'll
turn around.

When the last leaf falls
and the twigs ice o'er and the buds come out
I'll turn around.

I'm not ready.
I'm not ready
and I don't know what I look like anymore.

When the last leaf falls
and the twigs ice o'er
and I hear you shout
I'll turn around.

Are you still there?
Still there waiting?
Do you still want me back somehow
I'll turn to stone
or ice
or fire
any second now!

You've been sitting at my elbow
and I feel you brush my back.
Now I'm looking. I've said nothing
and you look okay with that.

Grass grows thicker
petals glimmer
and the Earth accepts my feet.
Was that really
all you wanted
just to sit a while with me?

Patience requires strength
Patience requires consistency
Patience requires discipline
Patience brings tears
Patience in the end reminds you why you waited for this sweetness

Darkness follows
me along the wall
I see its eyes
in the mirror my life
as a smokescreen
across the shallow
these treaded halls
garnish gallows
is it
midnight
or is it
noon
centrally marooned
one step away
too late too soon
my partner for life
one of us
is gonna be doomed

When the pen runs dry
My legacy won't be
On pixelated paper
But a sticky note reading
I-O-U
While I hoist Davey Jones colours
Indebted to you I'll forever be
Because you gave me a reason to smile
When the universe rejected me

the colour comes later, in the studio.
the land reclaimed, is bolder now,
energy splashes.


colour comes, from friends in conversation,
music and sounds, and i eat them
with hunger.