The Dark hounds of a broken night
They run, and scratch, and bite
Relentless and ruthless fear
Of the haunted past come near
Beckoned after the battle lost
Sly as the cat, torment the cost
Why do you come?
I ask in vain
When do you leave?
Remaining naive
When I lie, I write to him
The Old man of hope left to a dream
The promise of a life lived to the end
But on which day do I then depend?
I cannot know and so I must pass
From this day and night to an unwritten last

Fading to Grey
I wonder how long we'll ride this out
When the nostalgia runs stale
And the memory of what used to be abandons us for good
Our vanilla love, all those memories ago

The slow rolling storm,
Soon showed us its fury
Our will became
weathered
Never learning to love outside of expectaion

......but we pressed on down the line

Our weathervane of passionate desire,
Is it ever, everlasting?
and...
I remember when I used to tell you apathy
~ it was my biggest fear
And now it's become our home

I reach for my latest vice
And drown my heart
For a little while
At least until,
I am greeted again,

By those lackluster eyes
Their sad emptiness,
Dressed up, in an otherwise after-thought of a disguise

....better yet, this far down the line

So where do we go now Love
When only the chill of cold comforts are keeping us warm
In this kailidescope of complacency
Where the colours are slowly fading to grey

J.  Hitchcock 2019

What do you want from me?
Let me write what I feel
Only paper listens to me...
This my way out
This is my only way in...

I beg you let me be
Ignore me if that's what will set you free...

I bathed.
They told me I’d be safe here,
But the shallow waters felt like haunted depths
So I drowned still.
It clambered out from beneath the plug hole
And had my mother’s eyes.
Full of salt it stood there,
Deep and forlorn.
Seaweed for hair and no mouth at all
It reached towards me,
With the pallid face of a falling angel.
And I was no more.

Brilliance is something
we all possess “IT”
But,
So is darkness.
The brilliance
of darkness
Is to roam
freely  inside you
And In your solace
your generosity
It’ll Turns off
all lights and try
To deceive you
In believing
you’re living
once more
But,
What a prison
to live once more

Nevertheless
so is the brilliance of God
It’ll shine his light
within every crack
Of your soul that
darkness were
too lazy to sealed
And with his light
shining through
What a blessings
to die inside
To burn the worst
part of yourself
And rise again
from your own ashes
From your own despair
and rise once more
Stronger.... brighter.....
forevermore beautiful
inside and out ....
and born anew !

Words
Cutting through
Still air
Express
The hearts
Of a people


Fluttering through
The portals of endless minds
Unifying
Through shared experience

Piping the marrow
Of deepest consciousness
Tapping a reservoir of
Human hope

While we live
We can be poets
In death
Our words and deeds
Remain

Two steps into the green and
I kneel over to pull from the earth,
closing my eyes to make a wish
from the dandelions I have made
thousands of wishes from before.
It’s my way of sharing my secrets to the universe, whispering to the divine.