just one more day
just one more
you, looking at what has flown away
not what has decided to stay
Tag: poetry
Lilac – Written Friday 3rd January 2020 (Aged 44)
in your dreams
it soft washed your tears
as your weeping came clean
i was there,
when the glass ceiling fell apart
when the hack surgeon,
removed your aching heart
The Phone Call – Written Thursday 8th August 2006 (Aged 31)
i have always known,
that one day it will come
she thinks about me
and says i will come undone
i would like to disagree
i would have, when i was young
Swagger – Written Thursday 2nd January 2020 (Aged 44)
maybe now,
you feel the bronze tan
and it makes you the man
maybe foreign holidays
are paradise in the sand
Anger Is The Easiest Emotion – Written Tuesday 8th August 2006 (Aged 31)
i would like to be angry
anger is the easiest emotion
it is uncomplicated
and declares no sanity
it has no barrier
and little connection to reality
Let’s Go There – Written Thursday 2nd January 2020 (Aged 44)
that place where –
i look them in the eye
not this bent squint
and this lazy goodbye
not this endless runway
lit by my lazy eye
I Had Never Heard You Cry Before (Originally Untitled) – Written Tuesday 8th August 2006 (Aged 31)
i had never heard you cry before
human nature crept in
and knocked on the door of my conscience
it was rattling a charity tin
and leaving me to work out where to begin
You Let Clocks Melt – Written Thursday 2nd January 2020 (Aged 44)
you let friends trickle
down the canvas of your life
as you painted in a style so fickle
you reinvented yourself as a pastel wife
Me, You or Them – Written Thursday 26th December 2019 (Aged 44)
society is built upon –
oppression, discrimination and, ‘know your place’
one part of society wants equality and justice
and the other does not understand –
why it is wrong to don black face
Put My Hand Up – Written Friday 20th December 2019 (Aged 44)
ambition, would seem to be more understandable
than a, ‘i will give it a go’
i have believed in my talents
but your talents are only as good –
as the people who recognise them
in that respect, i am always halfway there
