she Saidshe said…i never have much luck with menand I did not know what to say.swimming pool eyesthat reflect the colour of clay. she said…last night I cried myself to sleep,i felt a hand reach outand my emotions collapse in a heap.my desire to helphad gagged and bound me to my seat. she said…you always listenand though I always did,i felt almost helpless and inadequateand I watched as pride snuck off and hide James Garratt – November 2008
Poems November 2008
Loving Us is Complicated
loving you is complicatedisn’t it always?i just smileand let you,just be you if others look surprisedi know,how I feel inside loving me is complicateda past,not yet vindicateda future,in the process of becoming elateda sense of purposeso understated But loving youIs what I doHere and now James Garratt – Monday 3rd November 2008
Balloons
feelings become balloonsfilled with heliumthat floator rise to the sky oceans of emotionfall as rain drops from our eyesthe make up,never breaks upit just covers a well of experiencenever full, not as such. And if you feel that today hurtsyou could take a chancefeelings as wordswritten in your sky James Garratt – Monday 3rd November 2008
Piece
they keep a piece backit hurtsbut I acceptafter allwho gives it all?i would like,to shout it from the rooftopsbut at presenti am on the stairsbanging on the roof hatchtrying to get out there James Garratt – Monday 3rd November 2008
Gaps
i hope,i bridge the gapremove the weight of doubt,from your backmake hands,reach outlet you find joyi hope,one dayi will be enoughof what I feel,will matter, as such James Garratt – Wednesday 5th November 2008
Footlights
you champion my causefind my footlightstread the boardsgive me something to saystand out in hordesa leading lady in my playyou find my directionmy only candidate for my personal electionyou champion my cause James Garratt – Wednesday 5th November 2008
Heart Gate
heart gateremains lockedshut,or barely openprevious peoplehave only hurt heart gatestruggle to openshut,not so much,in need of a keyor even a touchjust a needand fear to clutchheart gate James Garratt – Wednesday 5th November 2008
Skinny Dreams
skinny dreamsnot full fatflesh to bones skinny dreamsclouds in a cuponly full fatwith a sprinkle of luck James Garratt – Wednesday 5th November 2008
Clifftop
clifftopthe drop, more than expectedteetering on the edgewonder if I could be savedby stony ledgelooked outto the sea beyondand then downas the waves,crashed against jagged rockwonder if self destructionis always this closebefore it stopsdeep breaths nowclifftop James Garratt – Wednesday 5th November 2008
Fish out of Water
fish out of waterjust trying to breathefell into lovethen it decided to leavefound myself a new mayorin which to believe fish out of wateronto life’s hard tabledon’t gut or cut my gills Ii fear that knifefell out of lovewatched it turn out lights James Garratt – Wednesday 5th November 2008
