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Peter Cullen Mar 2014
When all around us, cities burned.
Great kingdoms fell,
with no one spared.
All that I could think of was your kiss.
Amongst the crumbled walls and streets
the places lovers used to meet.
That's the only thing I think I'll miss.
Dark days now full of dread and fear,
broken hearts and swollen tears,
but all that I can think of was that kiss.
Amongst the rivers that ran dry
the few souls left, who sit and cry.
That's the only thing I think I'll miss.
Peter Cullen Mar 2014
I find myself on Prospect Way
upon a sunny Autumns day
I find my head among the clouds
away from all the bustling crowds
Sitting lost inside my dream
is not as simple as it seems
The burning sun it blocks my way
now I'm back on Prospect Way
Peter Cullen Feb 2014
A crying clown on the boardwalk smiled
to melt away his fears.
The humming of the passing world
could not prevent his tears.
Once an introverted extrovert
that liked to talk out loud.
Is sitting with a sullen head
now hiding from the crowd.
There were messages,
that once seemed, like fine ropes made of sand,
but the messages were something,
he was to late to understand.
Sometimes it might be easier
to fall before you rise,
but in the end, it always hits you
right before you die.
As he sat there with expressions
he'd perfected through the years,
there were voices, that relayed to him
the passing of the years.
All the desperation
that would always leave him cold,
was the type of desperation, that watched him now grow old.
And as the situation, now revealed itself in turns,
he wondered in his crippled mind,
is there anything I've learned.
And despite the sinking feeling,
that engulfed his shipwrecked mind,
a silent voice would whisper that...
"there's something left behind".
Its that silent voice that whispers,
makes him reflect and rewind.
Peter Cullen Feb 2014
When I saw that picture of a man,
in a field, working land,
at first I couldn't recognize his eyes.
But then it dawned and memories spawned,
of all the love he was to leave behind.
Although I never met him,
we never passed the time of day,
I know I would have loved him,
there's somethings words don't need to say.
You see this man gave me something,
maybe unawares to him.
But this man gave my mother life,
love and hope, somewhere to be.
And though in this life paths weren't crossed,
You never left me at a loss.
And for that,
I thank you now,
the black and white man with the plough.
Peter Cullen Feb 2014
As I close my eyes,
embrace my mind,
and slowly filter out the light.
The only light that's left there is your glow.
Its haunting me inside my dreams
and finds its way through all the seams.
The patchwork, for protection I had sown.

I wonder, is it guilt or pride,
two words
my mind finds ways to hide,
two words
whose actions led to so much pain.
And then I think about that glow
and all the truths forever known.
I see that things will never be the same.......

but alas that glow it will remain.
Peter Cullen Feb 2014
Mind Body and  Soul.
I remember well the first time those three words entered my vocabulary in the same sentence, and later entered my consciousness in so many different ways.
The bottom of the first stairwell at Oliver Bond Flats.
They cost five quid each,
upon a hopeful summer's day........

"Mind Body and Soul" my friend said.............
his name was Jay, he's long since dead.
But at the time everything was very much alive.
A few young souls, just striving to get by.

Finding ways to laugh,
and **** the pain.
L.S.D, and squidgy black.
Days spent chasing Mary-Jane.
Wandering our city,
lost wandering our minds.
Not knowing what we're looking for.
Truly the blind leading the blind.

All those different faces,
I wonder where they smile these days?
What kind of light then graced their paths?
How many made it from the haze?
Peter Cullen Feb 2014
Words that burn aren't hard to learn
but leave a nasty blister.
So teach the youth to love themselves
their brothers and their sisters.
It's energy that's going dictate
how the cards will play.
Some lie in bed, they clutch a cross.
Lie waiting for the day.

The meek will then inherit.
All that's broken
all that's left behind.
The remnants of an orchestra
not parallel with natures lines.

A generation left to grasp
the sorry shadow of the past.
I hope they will forgive us, why?
We left them sail without a mast.

Upon sick oceans rising fast.
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