The Hard Part – Monday 25th August 2025 (Aged 50)

The hard part is,
I don’t remember.

I Still Love You – Sunday 24th August 2025 (Aged 50)

Yet, I still love you,
and it feels like trauma,
with a bow of grief.
I see us in pictures,
and something feels incomplete

No Time To Waste – Written Sunday 24th August (Aged 50)

No time to waste,
there is hate.
It expands like that foam
that people use
just to fill a space

Do I Belong To You? – Written Thursday 7th August 2025 (Aged 50)

things that turn up
like pieces of things that turn up late,
pieces of things
pieces if things held together with tape.

Stretch – Written Wednesday 6th August 2025 (Aged 50)

“The days stretch out before me,
so I put on my face
and rifle through my book.”

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.

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.