Diesel Trains – Written Wednesday 27th August 2025 (Aged 50)

Back on the diesel train,
electrification is a situation
I once found
in birthday dreams

The Tartan Tin – Written Tuesday 26th August 2025 (Aged 50)

I married someone once,
and the devils must have sat around
eating shortbread
from a tartan tin.

My Victorian Buildings – Written Tuesday 26th August 2025 (Aged 50)

My Victorian buildings
were built to last,
but my play was cast,
and I was sent out to sea.

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

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.

Belong – Written Thursday 10th July 2025 (Aged 50)

Where do I belong?
And where are my roots?
A local boy
with foreign boots.

Steam Power – Written June 2025 (Aged 50)

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

Belt – Written June 2025 (Aged 50)

There I am,
wrestling with the self,
watching memories
slide along the belt.