The black bird’s beak
Seemed busy
This Christmas morning
Like a guillotine
Lifting life from the ground
Like a knife dropping down
From the sky
Sacrificing
Slicing
Slimy
Beings
Defining the last moment
On Earth
For a worm
Placing them in
The space between
Death and birth

Sean Hunt Christmas Day 2016

One more breath is done
And then another one
How many more?
I cannot say
Another hour
Another day?
Another year?
How many more?
I cannot say

We walk the path
We have no choice
To stay, to play
Another day
Though we plead
Though we pray
The path we take
Is one-way



Sean Hunt  Dec 24 2016

Hey sister, hey brother
Hey there child of a childless mother
I looked for you, you looked for me
We both found no one to see

Every breath that I breathe
I think of mum I think of me
She never ever had a child
But here I am stuck inside
This body that was never born
Feelin’ lost and forlorn

Watch
Every moment going by
Don’t feel low
Don’t feel high
Think of mum
Think of me
Remember
There’s no one to see

If you forget and think you’re real
Remember, here’s the deal
Our mother never had a child
We were never born, we’ll never die

  Sean Hunt Dec 23 2016

My life is like a candle flame
About to die in the wind
Or like a spring snow fort
About to cave in
Some say we need to live as if
We may die today
I say for me it may be best  
I to think of hours left

Sean Hunt  Dec 19 2016

Will I be here
When the next Christmas comes
When winter
Turns the corner
And returns again
Will I see
Another tree

Will I once again
Be able
To leaf back
Through the pages
Of the book
To remember
The space
Between Decembers



             Sean Hunt   Dec 2016 Windermere, UK

I dare not say
“I will not die today”
Nay
I know not when
I know not where
I know not why
This holy moment
Is for me
A hidden mystery
Inside a galaxy
Of potentialities
Preparing to pop
Like kernels of corn

I must tidy my house
Today


            Sean Hunt  Dec 2016 Windermere, UK

Don’t you know when we embrace
We’re holding empty space
That’s just how it is
In this human race

We think it’s something else
Something that it’s not
We think we have a lover
That we haven’t got

The person in our arms
Feels so very real
Then when we try to find them
Things become surreal

There’s no one there to hold
Just some skin and hair
The person that we love
Is as empty as the air

I’ll put you on a pedestal
Bend down on one knee
Though the person I adore
I cannot even see

Like a rainbow and a phantom
You will come and go
Like a dream in the night
Like a shadow in a show

Like a promise that was broken
Like a vow never kept
Like an abandoned plan
Or an unpaid debt

Don’t you know when we embrace
We’re holding empty space
That’s just how it is
In this human race