Swallow The Days – Written Thursday 31st July 2025 (Aged 50)

Maybe I am just
not built in such a way
that I can so easily
swallow the days.

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.

Steam Power – Written June 2025 (Aged 50)

Memories frayed
around their edges.
Experiences, intangible,
like melted snow.

Inward Gaze – Written Friday 27th June 2025 (Aged 50)

It has a theatre,
but a one-person show.
It tracks identity
with the passion others take home.

People Can Easily See In – Written Thursday 19th June 2025 (Aged 50)

The shyness is never far,
but really it’s not shyness —
it’s actually a desire for privacy.
And those two are very, very different.

Deep Dive – June 2025 (Aged 50)

I am not a clockmaker,
and all my watches keep to a time
that I cannot read.
I watch as decades leave.

I Would Like To Belong – Written May 2025 (Aged 50)

I would like to belong.
I did not stay that long,
and now I feel like a journeyman
just going from place to place.

London and Smitten – Written May 2025 (Aged 50)

Back then, I seemed so far away
from being a child,
but a child I was —
still a fledgling in my thoughts.

What Became of Hope – Written Thursday 8th May 2025 (Aged 50)

What became of hope?
Did it fall over?
Fall out?
Has it taken cover?