Tread lightly upon the Earth you call your home
Be gentle in heart and strong of mind
And on days when that's hard
I don't mind being your rock
Your anchor
A haven within your chaos
Tracing your feelings
Suger paper sweet
Yet bitter like lemons upon your taste buds
Hold on to moments
Remember to breathe
Remember there's people out here that care

I'm not sure why my heart fluttered
At the sight of your tex
I'm not sure why my pulse got faster
This love affair was over such a long time ago
I guess my hearts knows more secrets
Than my head is willing to share

Hand stretched out waiting
For the hand of another
To intertwine fingers
Weave energies
And capture a thought once lost

When you fall in love
With a thought of a person
When you've never met
And you think there's something more
The cracks in you are filled
By a sideways smile
That shines though the words you read on a screen
And it's not real
And now you realise the cracks can never be filled
The cracks are what make you beautiful
But they also make you needy
And begging for more communication
Reading meanings in lines which in reality
Mean nothing more than nothing
How many of us beg and pray for just a little connection
In a world where we have forgotten how to interact
A world in which we fear to leave the comfort of our homes
In case the cold wind of reality comes biting
But the fear just like our mindless love affairs with words on screens
Isn't real
So open the door, walk through it
Hold out your hand and welcome a warm hand into yours
Now that kind of connection really is special
Live a little
Instead of dying online

Meet me for coffee
At the corner of 29th Avenue
On a sunny summers day
Some time in June
2020

Meet me
Next to the fountain in Trafalgar Square
It will be a frosty
New Year's Eve
2021

Meet me
Just past the junction
Junction 21
Not sure where it's near to
But I need to follow the M4 to get there
I'll be driving a red Morris minor
2pm
2022

Meet me
At the end of my street
You should know where to find me
If you've kept all the above dates that is
It could be raining
Bring a brolly
12 noon
April 2023


Meet me
Come celebrate my birthday
Its cold outside so wear a warm coat
Don't be late
I've missed you like crazy
12 Feb
2024

Beyond the broken mirror frame
Alice sits and waits
Once this was her portal
From all her worldly restraints
Now she sits here contemplating
How to get back home
She has has no ruby slippers
Feeling isolated and alone
How to put this life most different
Back together again
Can you glue fragmented glass
Will it glisten
Will it last
Until Alice can step back through
Back to the love and life
She always knew
It time
It's time
I'm going to be late
Follow the white rabbit
He knows another way

Do not touch my fragile skin
Your finger tips burn my soul
I do not need the love you hold in your heart
It is dark and wanting
You stray from the path
The wolf of fairy tales is your guide
Slowly step away from me
Take your sun from my eyes and your moon from my nights
I love only the earth below my feet
All else means that this is no longer fantasy
Burning desire
Blood dripping
Miracles are made when we forget to distrust
You wandered passed me
You turned your head
I so wish you had turn down a different road
I'm happy alone
Shall I shout that from the highest hill
IM HAPPY
Now roll back down and retrieve your crown of thorns
Righteousness dressed in evil disguise
Do not touch my fragile skin
Please look down and pass me by
Your sight upon me burns my soul
I can't live that way again

No one comes here
A Barron place
Where bombs have been dropped
Words spread on paper like the blood spread across our conscience
Many battles have been faught and won here
Many man has come and gone
More gone than survived
I miss them all
Friends I thought were but candles flickering
Too tender
Too hurt and fragmented
Just visiting to vent or create
Or to connect with themselves through others
I step carefully through the rumble
There are too many ghosts
Wandering lonely
About these walls

Last night I dreamed that I could fly
Above all the ******* lies and fury
To a place of no return
The air smells sweeter
As summer breeze lingers on winters frozen glade
Hollow and lost
Surrounded by lights so bright
Holding on fast to moments
Written in journals of destiny so long forgotten
You hold me up
Then gently lower me
I am no longer falling
I am rising
Flying
Lying in grasses that sway in sweet smelling meadows
Remember me in your world of chaos
It is time now
Time to close the curtains on this show I call life
Think of me often
Feel me close
And know with all my heart I'm thankful
For you all
You touched my weary heart
Everyone last one of you

When all you can do is light a candle and pray

I prayed that the heavens Angels would heal you
I now look around
And see they are already here
They bare blue gowns
They have the gentlest of touches
They grace the ward  with all the patience within
Your hospital bed stifles you
The tube intrude
Your breathing wraspping
Your life in the balance
May angels guide you

NOT IN MY NAME
As your bombs **** children who tonight will be tucked in for the last time
NOT IN MY NAME
As you karma watches you burn in hell
NOT IN MY NAME
The world cries as you play into the hands of the devil within
NOT IN MY NAME
As you hang that last Angel upon your Christmas tree

This Christmas can pass by silently
Mothers cry
Women die
Children crying for freedom in rubble laid graves

NOT IN MY DAM NAME!!! ...

It's days like this that make you want to run for cover

This time last year making plans
Funny how much can change so quickly
I'm so sure I was madly in love with you and you with me
But when you are unable to help pick up our broken pieces
When you would rather turn your back and hide from what's going wrong
Without gluing back together the important bits that make it love
When I don't seem to miss you quite as much as I thought I would
I'm not sure it was true love or just a dream lost on a whisper
You held my heart twice
Let go twice
This bird is flying free never to return home

Enough now
Your tears are scorching my face
Enough said
As we distroy the human race
Enough now
As my heart is open wide
Enough said
When I see the child huddled by your side
Enough now
Of this hatred and pain
Enough said
As our families die this way
Enough now
Lay you down to sleep
Enough said
Karma will be a sweet retreat

I see you
The one who runs from home
Child in arms
I see you
As others rant about their own safety
I see you
As you carry your child through dark forests and hostile countries
I see you
As others give food and rejoice at your safety
I see you
Sitting in detention centres waiting your fate
I see you
Sleeping under the stars
But it is not me that is important in your journey*
You hold the fear, the pain and the total desperation
You hold in arms your future
You watch those stars above you as you fall into an exausted sleep
I hope within you you can imagine a better place
I hope you see safety returning
I pray for your children that they will know peace
*I see you

She was seated in the lobby of the grandest hotel
I've ever had the pleasure to frequent
pristine down to the last detail  
smooth pencil skirt emotion lining her face

Something strangely familiar made me stop  
She looked holding me in the embrace of her stare  
Puzzled as to why I was hovering
willing me to move on
Used to strangers stopping for no reason
It was the burden she bared

She turned her head just slightly
Kind of tilting her self to get a better view
Across her beautiful cheek bone was a scar so deep
As though someone had taken a blade and tried to slice away her beauty
And yet beauty is more than skin deep

An older gentlemen shuffled past me
Holding out his arm
She rose and linked hers through his
A weary smile on lips of crimson
She turned her head
Pretending that this was normal
Pretending she didn't know who I was
Pretending she wasnt someone from the other side of town

May you sleep on sheets of satin and may lace clothe your body
You are worth more
Tell yourself this before you leave this world
You are worth so much more

Creeping quietly around crowded rooms
Looking to catch your eye
But your missing from this place
It really leaves me with no reason to hang around

I don't miss the lover in you
But I do miss the friend I found
Whilst loving you
I found I was broken
Something I don't even notice when I'm alone

Tonight I thought I'd try sleeping in the middle of the bed
Somehow I think it's about time
The void
That forbidden space
As though it's waiting for someone to crawl in
An invitation
Warm arms holding on
So no it's gone
Covered by my right leg
I give up
I really can't be bothered anymore

I never mean to let you pass by my barriers
But somehow you do.
I never mean to let you fill my void
But you always do.
I never mean to miss your presence
But I always do.
You make me see how empty I really am
And most days that's something
I manage to hid
Even from myself

When friendships have been lost and found
Hunting wildly for common ground
Realisation that there's people out there
that have looked for you for so long
because they missed your friendship
It means so much
It touches my heart in ways I can't explain
Other than throuh my tears of feeling blessed
When someone sees your light
Even at times when it was the dullest
Decades go past
Your not forgotten
Your held dear within their heart
So dear they look through empty spaces
Searching under pebble and stone
Until at last your found
Today I feel very blessed ...

Those old folks holding hands in the park
The ones that have loved each other for eternity
And are still going strong
That's what I missed
And now I realise the princess in me never really found her prince
Just a load of old frogs
The old folks they found each other
They took the princess and prince and turned them
Into a King and queen .

Chest
Tightening
Breathlessness

She wants to feel the softness of feathers upon the tips of her toes
Reaching out for comfort that will surely come
She caresses the moments before midnight
With suger kisses so sweet
Like honey coated forgiveness
She smiles into her lovers eyes of crystal dew
Beyond
Her sences reeling
Twirling, dancing
Like the figurine within an ancient music box
As the music surrounds the childs mind so pure
And yet
There is more captured within
The sweetness is soured only by memories
She paints with fingers in the suger
To forget
There are things so worth forgetting
She sees him sleeping and places
mirrors where his eyes once looked upon her
For now she will see herself
The way he see's
The blood from the girl child dried as he slept
There was to be no more sugered moments
No more honey for him to savour
she had seen
Her worth in his eyes
Such a shame sweet child
She should of loved herself with toes touching feathers
Reaching for a comfort
That would only be found in forgiveness of self
Far beyond the place he sleeps
With mirrored eyes of crystal dew

He awakes to find his beloved drenthed in death
He reaches for moments which never come
Her projection of him so false upon this moment
As in a moments seperation
She sees with her angel presence
The suger he tastes on lips so pure
His tears now mingle with the blood
As he tears her mirrors from his eyes
He understands not
The reason
Why white feathers are falling from the sky

Exquisitely flawed in all the right places
Like the keys on the piano that  sits abandoned
Your ebony keys complement my ivory so well
But dust collects and you never notice
So I fall away quietly
Retreating like a soldier
Who knows he will not win the inner battle before him
Quietly quietly
Silently go
Where no one sees you
Nobody knows
I built up my fortress
A place full of pride
Full of hatred
Your pent up lies
A promise broken
A heart is torn
I'll stay in my castle
Where my poetess is reborn
*Quietly quietly
Silently go
Where all the others fear to tread
I will lye down this weary head
Exquisitely flawed in all the right places
You are the man with many faces

Move closer
Slowly
Tracing the sweat from your brow with my fingertip
Inching down your face , along your neckline,
Coming to lay on your shoulder blade
Your shirt all crisp Cotten and smelling of sweet cologne
I will raise my eyes to connect deeper for longer
Moving slowly
Keeping eyes pinned
Lips tremble
I want to devour your mouth
Gently closer now
Feel my warm breath upon your skin
Our lips meet
There may be no return from this moment
As my body sways to your own unique tune

Angels sleeping
Whilst mothers weep
Growth in spirit
In silent retreat
Dust to dust
Upon the breeze
Connection lost
I pray down on my knees
Lost to my sight
But not to my heart
Torn from life
Right from the start

You should of loved me
Like a crazed hungry wolve loves the night.
You should of held me
Like a mother holds her child
Protecting and nurturing in her light.
You could of shown me
The murmurings of your heart,
But instead you shot me down
With the deadliest of darts.
Thought provoking
Loneliness is an ownership,
I have learnt it is of my own creation.
Something past reasoning hauntingly
Reminds me I need to be more.
Yet my silence becomes muffled by the din
Of my beating heart.

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