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Mar 2018 · 553
Dad, father or a stranger
yw Mar 2018
Dad I just learned to say your name ain’t you proud why did you walk out the door again
Dad I’ve learned so much already I’m more than 3ft tall now, I like playing outside climbing trees, maybe you’ll call now?
Dad I know you stopped by for my birthday but you missed Christmas, did Santa have me on the naughty list cause it was just you and some cool toys on my Christmas wish list
Dad I can’t believe I’m starting high school and your finally in my life to stay now
Dad I’m so glad I get to live with you now things were too hostile between mum and stepdad I’m thankfully that you’re here now
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Dad I’m not a kid anymore. My whole life I just wanted to know who you are
Dad it’s been 13 years since I walked out that door
I hear you still drink and get into bar fights
And the harder drugs **** that was a surprise even to me I thought having a **** and beer was more of your thing
But I don’t know you and I know you and I know of you
What do you say to the man that claims he’s your fam when he missed the entire first chapter and ****** up the next
You say stay safe and take care
The one thing I learned from you is that life is not fair
Mar 2018 · 817
Filtered lives
yw Mar 2018
Filtered faces
Staged selfies
Eating oysters
Look at my new watch, sneakers this and that  
Look at the places I visit
Look at my perfect life
No colours are too bright
Edited to perfection
Cropped out the background
Hide the mess If they don’t see it then it doesn’t exist
This is my wonderful wife, life, pooch and house

If I didn’t stage that selfie then this is all of what you would see
the dog that won’t stop barking,
the house that needs cleaned and possibly refurbished,
the wife scrambling at the debt letters on the kitchen counter wondering why the money don’t cover it
The life you wish to filter and draw a line under with the caption “perfect life”
yw Dec 2017
Money weights heavy on the scales of social justice. We’ve all been deceived
social values and beliefs but what about the homeless people you see living on the streets
our society is too quick to throw away the key to the people living on the streets barely getting by, stealing to eat, dealing with social exclusion, depression, addiction, mental health, anxiety that need for a prescription or an alcoholic ingestion, sitting crouched over with their chins burrowed into their knees and their arms tightly wrapped around them, while the fancy ties and Gucci bags just pass them by, do you know some turn tricks in order to survive
they have no shelter no place to call home, no place to be warm
society has tossed them aside, left them fallen
sleeping in doorways of expensive city stores
These people are human beings just like you and me,
they are people’s kids, that are talked about, forgotten about, left to die cold on the street
think about that homeless person you seen lying on the street that could be you or me,
how would you feel if you were begging on the street looking up to frowning faces as they attend there usual rat races big fat briefcases.
Take time to acknowledge their sleeping bag and their cold hands and feet and the cardboard that’s underneath to keep the rain from seeping into their pavement side bed,
is it really too much to ask people if they want a tea or a coffee along with something hot to fill their grouchy tummy , so they may feel like someone actually might care to help them.
When the system has hell bent them. These are ******* people with feelings that just need someone to respect them and a government to protect them.
It’s a diabolical crime for people to be left out to die on the street it happens all the time amongst you and me
be the one that gives hope to the poor souls that’s dying every minute on these cold winter streets
Dec 2017 · 325
Broken love
yw Dec 2017
Kiss me
Date me
Care for me
Share secrets with me
Build your trust in me
Make love to me
Proposed to me
Messed around on me
Put the blame on me
Why didn’t you just love me

I did kiss you
I did date you
I did care for you
I did share secrets with you
I did trust you
I did make love to you
I did propose to you
I didn’t mess around on you
The blame is on you
All I did was love you
Dec 2017 · 629
December is -4
yw Dec 2017
Today is the 13th of December it's quietly been crawling through the wee hours of the night
It's cold here where I live
-4 to be precise
What's the weather like where you live?
I'd imagine it to be sunny all the time. A magical place where unicorns run free across skies and seas and their is no wars just always and only peace, there is no known word called disease and everyone there is overflowing with happiness and delight to be in such a perfect afterlife.
You see everyone down here is just getting ready for Christmas and writing their own wish lists
But I can't help but think of you, or you, or you, or you, four people gone from this families tree within months of each other you vanished this year and I didn't get time to tell you I love you as you took your last breaths and left this earth
For a prettier place where you still get to see the snow you just don't get to feel the bitter touch of -4 on this day in December
I just wanted you to know that I remember you, and you, and you, and you!
Dec 2017 · 247
Scribbling mayhem
yw Dec 2017
I like to write it's a great passed time of mine where I can scribble a thousand thoughts and then say right I'm fine, I've had a good whine I can get up and on with my day, cause a pen to paper is sometimes better than a buried box with closed thoughts that will never reach its recipient.
Dec 2017 · 265
Birdie
yw Dec 2017
I met this girl years ago
Intense even from the get go
It was hard not to obsess
It was the way she dressed up little words
along the tapestry and down the drapes
from the small cracks in the walls
to the kitchens junk drawer
she filled the whole place with
warmth and light  
every time she said I love you baby, good night!
Dec 2017 · 683
Swim up, don't drown!
yw Dec 2017
Swim up, don't drown!  
submerged in unconscious waters sitting on the oceans floor
hoping for flowers to grow, waters surround even more.  I tired myself out, I thought about floating away.

swim up, don't drown!
know I'll never drown
I learn to swim first
like they taught us when we were kids
diving to adventure first
learning to swim later

Swim up, don't drown!
flowers need the sun to grow
part of the growth
ocean of emotion
challenges everything
It wants strength, it sees bravery, it just needs a little hope.
sun reflects on this ocean floor
for it knows flowers have never grown here before

Swim up, don't drown.
Flowers need sunshine to bloom
Not a place like the oceans floor,
look up with your flowers , rise to the sun above.

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