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
being saddened –
has encircled me
but now,
now there is you
oh, i know,
be thick skinned
but it is the thick minded
that level the attack
it is true, the depression and the mood swings
which the depression finally brings
and the highs and lows
which cause me so much trouble
and i am the product –
of emotions melted –
by a radiator of a lost cause
it is the one that remains largely unspoken
the one,
where routine has set in
the one where church bells have finally broken vb
and my need is ever present
i am watching it multiply all over again
so i have been taught a lesson
but the pain cannot be segregated
well… we lost each other…
but, to be honest though
i am not entirely sure –
that we ever found each other
i cannot stop loving you
no matter what i do
i cannot let go
i know you are not everything
but you are a special something
the house is fine
it is feeling confident and alive
yet the space of the spare room
and its feeling,
betrays the outside
because i am not the tears you cry
and i am not the breath between every sigh
so take away the shutters
because you have to ask yourself why
The Boy Behind The Glasses. Poetry and Writing 