Maybe I am just
not built in such a way
that I can so easily
swallow the days.
Category: Poems July 2025
Close Eyes – Written July 2025 (aged 50)
shut down gates,
open,
find pasture.
Trauma Ties – Written Monday 28th June 2025 (Aged 50)
The trauma ties,
the trauma ties,
the trauma ties —
untie them, let go.
Chorus – Written Monday 28th July 2025 (Aged 50)
Where do I belong?
It’s a complicated song,
although it has
verse and chorus.
The Actual Question – Written Thursday 31st July 2025 (Aged 50)
And it is that,
the question,
the actual question,
the lifelong task.
Prejudice Sets Sail – Written Wednesday 16th July 2025 (Aged 50)
They blame other human beings,
human beings they’ve not actually met.
Boats enrage them,
dinghies cause their prejudice to set sail.
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