James Garratt – A life lived and recorded in ink since 1992
My name is James and this personal website is an attempt to archive my writing which predominately is (under a loose banner) poetry
I started writing things down at the age of 17 in 1992, initially with no other idea of plan then to keep a record of my thoughts and feelings. Given my growing up experiences it felt like the perfect way to apply some self help therapy
I am a smile,
a joke,
I am the words
that with youthful heart —
I once wrote.
But,
I do not know
what to say.
Sally is sad,
and I know
we are a long way
from former days
I sat there,
drinking,
a can of Coca Cola;
knowing that we were together
I am out walking
across,
and up steep, steep hills;
then,
downhill,
on a freshly greased sledge,
I sit here,
imagining versions of me —
the ones,
that I know
can never be
I know though,
memories are just paper
or parchment,
or fragments of a song,
like long haul trailers
that I haul along.
I wonder,
where does it fit in?
Restlessness
is something
on which I cling.
in hallways
that are my age;
in rooms
that are painted
in rage.
And you cosied up
to the devil
when your evangelical religions
became false.
And now,
People place faith,
belief,
and trust
into wicked demons.
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