Thomas Alan

Thomas Alan Nov 2022

You have so much beauty
I swore the flowers even turned their heads

You put the sunshine back into my heart

The Yellows,

Oranges,

and Red’s.

Thomas Alan Nov 2022

my pillows

i cling to your memory
like your scent clings to my pillows

and no amount
     of tears
        seems to wash
              you away

Thomas Alan Nov 2022

The Ridges of November

You do not see the tremble
Wired beneath my skin and my hallowed hands
As I hover amongst the lost and stolen

I am every gypsy in the wind this night
And every thought crossed
Blackened alley’s alone

On the night I am found
In the ridges of November;

On the stealth lightning
That hashes my insides
To the autumn fire of years cease
and tango

‘til eternity's end.

Thomas Alan Nov 2022

Lost property

dishes fly across the kitchen
food climbs the walls that I want to escape
a beer scented storm screams into my baby face
as my mouth is closed from fear and not tape

my body is frozen in statue
just an inanimate object with a beating heart
lost property of my father
as I am torn gently apart

hands on my skin
my eyes glued to the hands of the clock

i wish they’d made me a body

a body

with a lock

Thomas Alan Nov 2022

Scars

why don’t you waltz
with me slowly
underneath the crying stars

then stab my heart out
using the tiny bits of glass
that caused the scars on both your hands

can i kiss away the pain
and make love to all of your lies?

why don’t you tie me to our bed
and stick it deep between my thighs

Thomas Alan Nov 2022

Glass Slipper

You slipped him on like a glass slipper
and I don’t mean to be this blunt
You’re telling us that you fit so well together
but I can see toes poking out the front

The magic dies at midnight
that’s when the fantasy will end
So soon you’ll remember what was real
and what is actually pretend

Thomas Alan Nov 2022

Betty

I’m still clutching the clouds
and you watch from afar
I don’t know why you still hate someone
who doesn’t exist anymore

Betty and the other stars in the sky
they carry your heart to me at night
and they keep bringing me back to you in your dreams
because they believe we can put this right