Paul Gilhooley

May 2016

Walter W Hoelbling

it may well be that I no longer am good company
or that I never have been anyway

it’s not that people make me feel like that

it is myself that questions me
and I am spending more time with myself
than anybody else

I have noticed lately
a touch of crankiness
looking at me out of the bathroom mirror

I wonder why

is it just age encroaching on my life
with its assorted ailments
or disillusionment of archived teenage dreams

I look again at the reflection of myself
and see what I did miss before

there is a spark of youthful mischief in these eyes
even the serious bearded lips seem ready for ironic smiles

maybe no everything is lost

maybe I can myself keep company
for some more years with little strife

even, perhaps, until the end of my sweet life

Paul Gilhooley May 2016

My Gift

With colourful words on paper I paint,
Creating images, some bleak, some quaint,
The source eternal, the well of my soul,
To ease other's burden, my wordly goal.

If what I share, can ease your pain,
Then comfort from words, we both shall gain,
Pains shared by one, can help cure two,
So share my words, my gift to you.

© Cinco Espiritus Creation
2016

May 2016

summer

bring me the horizon

i'm scared to get close,
i hate being alone. I long
for that feeling, to not
feel at all. the higher
i get, the lower i'll sink.
I can't drown my demons,
they know how to swim.

**I do not own this

Paul Gilhooley May 2016

Who the **** are you?

Weren't you the person I used to be?
Weren't you the person so timid and shy?
Weren't you the person of low self esteem?
Weren't you the person to hide in the crowd?
Weren't you the person with no confidence?
Weren't you the person that knew when to laugh?
Weren't you the person that knew when to cry?
Weren't you the person that hid it all behind a mask?
I'm still the person I used to be,
I'm still the person timid and shy,
I'm still the person of low self esteem,
I'm still the person hiding in the crowd,
I'm still the person of no confidence,
I'm still the person that knows when to laugh,
I'm still the person that knows when to cry,
I'm just a person that now wears a better mask!
That's who the **** I am!

© Cinco Espiritus Creation
2016

Paul Gilhooley May 2016

...ating

I spend my days procrastinating,
An activity I find invigorating,
Making plans is so frustrating,
And meeting people nauseating,
So I spend my days procrastinating,
And wasting time deliberating.

© Cinco Espiritus Creation
2016