i find many people
trying to hide
what is obvious inside
i see them
with their social media profiles
Category: Poems August 2021
Golden and Brown – Written Friday 20th August 2021 (Aged 46)
like a star
trying to catch a frown
i was caught
in my own web
it is made
of words I have said
Saying Goodbye – Written Friday 20th August 2021 (Aged 46)
saying goodbye
is it goodbye?
when you are not sure
if you ever said hello
Hunger for the Spotlight – Written August 2021 (Aged 46)
a sense of contradiction
clings to their brain
childhood hands out certificates
leaving you an expert in pain
How The Truth Got Here – Written Friday 20th August 2021 (Aged 46)
and no one –
will understand how i feel
the relationships i had
perhaps it was never real
perhaps that is why i never called him dad
A Self Contained Apartment – Written Wednesday 18th August 2021 (Aged 46)
not different
or special
or even aloof
just self contained
Keep Me Warm – Written Wednesday 18th August 2021 (Aged 46)
i am never as stable as i want to be
what did –
my parents build me upon
was it every sad song
that they had heard
Broad Shoulders – Written Thursday 12th August 2021 (Aged 46)
my parents generation spoke in sayings
and would talk about broad shoulders
but all those sayings
do not mean anything any more
People Do Not Want to Hear Truths – Written August 2021 (Aged 46)
do not –
offer them truths
or latter day horror stories
give them a love story
Pull Triggers – Written Tuesday 10th August 2021 (Aged 46)
to delve,
deep into myself
and block up the entrance
is a destructive trait
it is a dangerous state
