The wide smiles on the proud faces here

Just proves the richness of your company

And as you move through this gentle crowd

I whisper "Please keep in touch".

Don't get upset or curse yourself

If you replace me

I know  the way of this world and how it works

There is order to these things.

 

...

Flushed cheeks and heavy feet

You're on your way back  to the family home

Evening tea and the shouting from next door

You feel a sinking in your stomach<...

Every glorious day

Every damp and miserable evening 

You still close the same torn curtains

And you're still alone.

 

With e...

 

The bruised and battered sky

seems to reflect the pain you try so hard to conceal

but it is right there in your tired eyes

the longing, the...

I'm heading south

I should have left along time ago

I really don't belong here

and I don't think you're going to miss me much when I'm gone.

 ...

I am always so happy for you

and you will never find me feeling sorry for myself

I'm so pleased to see

you've got the spring back in your step

and...

Will you read to me?

Something that is precious

something that is worth holding on to life for

will you let me into your heart?

 

Loneliness won't kill you

much as you may want it to

and everyday you spend alone

is another day of you pining for someone to show.

 

Anything that you have to give me

I will welcome with an honest and grateful heart

I just need a little help from someone who can be kind.

 

...

Who should I talk to?

About my friend who never comes out

he locks himself away with all of his anger

and those walls he stares at are now turning gray.

Put a chair by the window and turn the heating on

there is a whole brave world inside

and you don't need to be dangerous to risk it all

just pick up the phone...

Everyone you meet serves you a smile

you have never known a victim of crime

and the day always ends just like

your mother said all good stories should end

...

Happiness is dangerous

you must keep your guard up.

 

Happiness is dangerous

you can't just ignore it.

 

I would...

I just heard about your beautiful dog

I'm sorry.

 

And I was told your sweet little kitten has lost an eye

I am sorry.

 

...

I am walking behind you

where the sun can never see my face

I am walking behind you

where the jokes are always cruel and full of venom

I am walkin...

When you feel forgotten

the world spins and turns

you seem to be nowhere

a space all of your own

you kick and scream at the world

but ...

There is no way of knowing if tomorrow will want me

or if I even want to be there

I get so tried of finding reasons just to get up each morning.

 

I would love to drink tea with you again
but only you
please don't bring along anyone else.

It has been quite a while since I heard a story or tale from you
and you tell t...

I still smile when I remember your face

we were on an island, some miles from the mainland

we walked around it several times

it had plenty to see and not many...

I went walking this morning

A short walk, about forty minutes

The morning was very much of January

Freezing rain, horrible winds and totally unhappy.

When those we love

Eyes have become dim with tears

Ours hearts should break cold and shatter

But they don't, we carry on.

 

 ...

Opinions they are generously tossed around

And no one has even asked me to leave the room

There really is no point, I will not protest

Sadly, I am doing my be...

No one on this earth

Today or tomorrow

Will ever write about me and my relationship with the world

So, just for there to be a record of it

(Some p...

Human beings are nothing but a disappointment

And I should know

I have been one for most of my life.

 

 

They will always ha...

With eyes aglow

The little princess took her first step

And then her second

Applauding her pride in herself to the whole world

She tumbled slowly ...

I watch the night approaching

Cloaked once more in darkness

How clever it is to fool us to sleep

And to dream, the crippling curse of us all

"Oh, ...

The world, oh how it regards you now

And it tingles from the pleasure

Having survived the fright of winter unblemished

You, shimmering with the charm of youth...

Oh, what joy there is to be had in the beginning

When anticipation rebirths you to the innocents of a child

And the optimism that each of us holds

Creates pla...

Wanting for nothing

Yet lacking any grace

I have built a cocoon of contentment around myself

All of my nervousness has vanished

I have taken each ...

These days, each morning it climbs another degree

And the new spring light seems to shine that little bit brighter

For far too long I have escaped into my dark delicious ...

How quite insignificant I feel

Sat so short and plain before you

The handsome and the fragrant

Glide across the polished floor

Never knowing or ca...

Under the purple veil of a dream

We danced to glorious stringed music

And our naked feet moved so gracefully

That we never touched the moon lit floor

Whatever marvels this night announce's

With it's meddlesome downpours

And ceaseless vamping by flesh starved widows

I only wish for you a joyous celebration.<...

The tediousness of a family gathering

The tittle-tattle by all who should know better

The sinking heart of one tremendously sensitive

The triumph of a defiant...

 

That original spark

When the flint is suddenly struck

And searching eyes discover one-another

Warns off the encrouching darkness

<...

It was the morning of The Young Prince's wedding. The palace and the entire kingdom were busy and excited with the final arrangements. The Young Prince sat at his dressing table which was the mo...

I know you have strenght

I can see it even as you cry

and you feel now like something has been ripped out from inside

and you feel now like anything is better...

There are people who have no sense of beauty

Who demand all to be obedient

They have made gain and not personal growth their aim

And look upon those in diffic...

Heartbreaking, soul crushing words

The like of which I have never heard

I'm done biting my tongue.

 

When you take advantage of the kind and ...

Life

Simply life

And the freedom to experience it

Expressing myself through absolute joy

To invite and entertain pleasure

Always in ha...

Kindness, compassion and tenderness

I try to fill my days with such simple things

But both sorrow and distress show their faces here

I grow weaker at the sigh...

Where did it all come from

Everything, that makes you the astonishing person you are

How much of you is rightfully yours?

What have you inherited from mother ...

Well if I stuck my finger in your face

Would a smile return to mine?

And if I buried my left hand into your gut

Would my spirits be finally lifted?

<...

You have been quietly watching me

Sadly shaking your weariy head at the sight of all of my trials

My insistence on living with passion and fire

Yes we know, s...

 I am quite sure I was not asleep

The insensitive wind and miserable rain

Were beating at the window to be let in

From the corner of my eye I saw a beaut...

It is always so complicated

'Just impossible to explain'

We become so theatrical

About missing the last train

But it is the heart that is not inex...

The view from your graveside

In the summer sun or under gray skies

Does nothing to impress me

But I will stay here with you for a while.

 

A secret agony

Lies within my soul

A piercing anguish

That the years and my teeth

Have failed to grind down.

 

 ...

There are far too many smiles

Directed towards me

I have done nothing in my life to deserve such kindness

I need to take a break and spend sometime in the gra...

It can snatch your breathe

That shear absense of encouragement

The poisonous eyes judgement

Oh, I am aware of such hearts

Dark and cold as damp al...

What shall we name it

My love for invention

An affliction

An irritation

The reason for all my self-doubt and dread.

 

Aglow with excitement

I bolted down the blur of stairs

To the small envelope lying on the hallway floor

Illuminated now by the morning sun.

 ...

Oh, you know that feeling

That great surge you get when you hear their voice

Your eyes pinch, all excited

Like diving into an ice cold lake on a brilliant sun...

Feeling dazed and vulnerable

I get ready to face the start of another day

An air of confidence is not something you are likely to find

Around me, at anytime.<...

Your eyes, they have known the tragic

And your heart has only ever been barren

But despite this wreck of a life

I am totally besotted with you.

&n...

All these urgings of my heart

How they wickedly embrass me

I was born with these natural feelings

Surely I am not alone

On a tired box-spring bed<...

Pull back the curtain

Open up the window just a crack

I like the sound of the city

This early in the morning.

 

Leave the toast s...

Every question from your mouth

Brings with it tremendous pain

Each word weighed down with such bitterness

I have lost my sight forever.

 

Blundering my way through yet another huge mistake

Should'nt life really be worth so much more

Astounding to think, all of the prayers that I spent

Pleading f...

One thing you should remember

Is that you are always being lied to

And no one is ever on your side

Please don't blame me

I'm truly very sorry

<...

Be kind, be honest

Be brave, be all you you can 

While there is time.

 

I don't want to scare you

But even the greatest of p...

Where is the fight I once saw in your wild eyes?

I would like to know

And your powerful bear hugs have retired to a limp handshake

What has happened to you?

Happiness can burn

It brings many things with it

And one is a flame.

 

Your head will feel warm

Like you have had too much to dri...

It's such a terrible loss I know

The only love you ever knew

Now gone.

 

It's so surprising

How unprepared we can feel

<...

A jam jar of dull coins

Sits on the window sill

Dust collects behind.

 

He gazes out the window

To the hanging autumn

The more I talk with you

The more I believe we are developing 

Our own little code.

 

And it is lighter that I feel

More foc...

I know sometimes I can get it wrong

My mood can change to a low tick fog

And the chill of loneliness

Sits deep within

Never wanting to leave

I am desperately hoping that this is the last time

That I kneel before the bed

Under a jeering moon

I just want someone

Please, to answer me.

<...

My decaying heart

The blackness of exhaustion

And morning comes with a haunting song

Once again I face an unremarkable day

With nothing to offer

You are fierce

A forest fire

Leaving a lasting mark on everyone you run through.

 

You have made mistakes

And your reflection wou...

Your shoulders are hardly there

And your back behaves like it was left out in the rain

But please have the courage

To accept how astonishing you are.

The smell of your skin in the morning

The tiny angel hairs on your earlobe

The mood of any room you move through

People drift out of the darkness

...

Every conversation

Every single thought

I have had one hundrend thousand times

The past is a lonely place to live.

 

I am drownin...

Over-cautious

Over-delicate

I just want to get it right.

 

Nothing more than a pencil sketch

This is what I appear to be

I don't know how to describe it

But I am learning so much from you

A smile of everlasting wonder

Has replaced my always doomed out look.

 

With certain things and a certain period of my life

People of this world seem to expect a great deal of me

I need so much to do something

The more intense

...

What gory fate awaits?

Your head resting on my shoulder

And the ticking of time

Brings no comfort or humor

Another day wasted

Worrying...

No one runs up and down the stairs anymore

No more banging of doors

No laughter when the lights go out

And the noise you hear in the morning

Comes...

Life is simple when you are angry

You regress into this childlike state

Where everyone is wrong and cannot be trusted

And the sting behind your eyes is only t...

Squashing everyone I ever dreamt of

Into one fine handsome person

I'm afraid would totally bore me

Once you have found perfection

What is the poin...

Sensational dreams are stalking me

The feel of lasting hope stays cloaked around me

Positive and high spirited

A damp step off the kerb is nothing to get upse...

Life is very dear

And so very painful

Sorrow and misery stalk it day and night

Spying every weakness

And clasping upon it with terrible delight.

Watching the city splendour

I ignore my own shabbiness

This is a pleasant life, if unremarkable that I live

Which is much more than so many can say.

...

Just the briefest thought of you

And already I am exhausted

And I wish I knew why

Because you haven't even arrived.

 

 

<...

Slowly torn to shreds by a baying mob

Well, this seems to be my only reason for existing.

 

 

The cold, crystal moon looks down

I am healing, slowly

And the bright pitiless sunlight

Excites everything and everyone, all around me.

 

 

Keeping myself tig...

I sometimes think to myself

(Because I have to)

That perhaps its easier to be on your own

Maybe I'm better off

I think I'm more comfortable with b...