i smile
but then,
i am a past master of smiling it away

this is phase three
the one,
which is about the new found me

and some people,
i really do owe –
a great deal of thanks
some people entered my battlefield
and drove in the heaviest tanks

does not matter –
what i say or do
cannot make someone –
want you

deploy a bulldog defence
judging others
sitting on fences

it is the kind of thing you say –
when the extent –
and the impact of something –
leaves you speechless

Stocktake someone said to me – find someone new but i will elect to stay indoors and put on a … More

i go to sleep thinking of you
and i wake up… just the same

i do not need to forgive
just learn to turn off these feelings
try to discount,
their obvious meaning