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 Mar 2012 Tearani C
Alex Caldwell
Push back the night,
And crack the sky.
Have you ever stopped,
And wondered why?
Why stars fall into place,
Where is love's true embrace?
For the sake of all,
For the GLORY of none.
With all thoughts aside,
There is still only one.
One reason to fear,
Only silence to hear.
Stretched across the distance,
Pulled through the air.
Could leave you floating,
Would you even care?
Care for the one who falls,
Listening to old telephone calls.
Awake in this place,
Of silence and despair.
Only to find,
No one is there.
 Mar 2012 Tearani C
Steve Collins
If I can be so modest,
Even if I do say so myself
I’m not too bad looking,
Not ready to sit upon a shelf.

I have a sense of humour,
And can be quite sharp witted too
And when I fall in love
It’s always ‘cause I’m true.

I have a real deep emotion
And a sense of empathy,
I make a friend for life
And have a sense of loyalty.

I have a question to ask you,
Could someone fall for me?
I hear you say “you don’t see why not”
But it’s not like ABC.

I hear you ask the question “why?”
And I have to say with some despair,
It’s because they don’t see what’s above
They can’t see beyond my chair.

I do not have the use of legs,
And my hands, they have no feeling,
But for me that doesn’t mean to say,
That life can have no meaning.

The chair is just a part of me,
It’s not actually who I am
It’s just a chair I sit in,
I’m still a real man!

So, if what’s important in life
Is love and security,
Could you do much worse in life
Than choose someone like me?


Steve Collins 28/4/08
Written after becoming paralised from the chest down and confined to a wheelchar in December 2007.
 Mar 2012 Tearani C
Scott Murray
Around the corner, carefully
spread under the weight of
an artificial skeleton
partially collapsed like light
bent in a glass; displaced.
I spit static at her feet
like a broken tv threat
in the middle of a storm
while times face spins
and gives away pieces of
itself, generously, hand over hand
slowly becoming expended.

We've become victimized
by spacial distortion, left
with no options. Standing
as question marks with
long shadows as dusk dies
making gestures with mouths
that build dust on bedsheets.
I tell her that I love her like
liferafts and that in the ocean
of days she is keeping me afloat.
The words break the ground into
uneven sections, missing all fault
lines and creating walls of syllables,
tall like trees that flower and cut off
all lines, leaving us momentarily
incommunicado.
I might look like
ive got a dagger and a dirk
on in each hand
ready to stab deep, to hurt
might look like
ive got fangs that drip venom
but venom's not in em
It's a vicious cocktail
of hurt and hope
might look like
to my temple or to yours
ive got a glock
but i dont and that
tick tocking sound is not
a gun cocking it's a clock
winding down in my memories
because i'm stuck remembering
and reliving them
so i hope it's relieving to know
it


might look like
i wish you dead before i go to sleep
but what i wish is you were next to me
I won't say i told you so unless the words are I love you
and it's because you finally believe me.
My heart broke for you but you wouln't believe it
I heard he hurt you and I'd already preconceived it
and told you so, but i won't say i told you so
I've never been that guy. you know.
stand by my side as i step into the shadows
come with me into the dark of my life that none know
i need you to live because without you i couldn't
the darkness consumes me and i need you to consume it
a simple smile or laugh draws me into dreams
utopia is truly where you are it seems
your simple presence in my life is enough
i want to just be with you, in dark, in light, in love
 Mar 2012 Tearani C
Lenna
I stood in the sun
and thought of you
and of my junebug heart.
It clings on, unshakable,
even after it’s death.

And you like that about me,
my junebug heart that is.
You think you have one too.
I know that you don’t.
Yours is fleeting.
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