You feel yourself dying step by step but in the stasis even death is life, only death is life a challenge to the ending when the middle grows oblique when the beginning is forgotten and the story feels weak The narrative is endless though despite what you might think and […]
Poetry
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The looming grey of certainty was all that could be seen and all that it provided was a routine made obscene Want to see more? Sign up to my monthly mailing list, few seconds of your time and it makes a big difference to me… [mc4wp_form]
When I chance to think of beauty I choose a sweaty arse I choose some unwashed panties a human lack of class Because once I was a dreamer who saw just perfect skin and the price that we all pay for that is an ignorant one’s sin We make the […]
Cruelty is born in an instant indifferent cold While love takes a lifetime maturing in deep buried folds aborted with ease and painful in birth the harshness consumes it before it touches Earth And we all are the Mothers and Fathers of sin we contain all the seeds of evil […]
If home is where the heart is this one’s freezing cold filled with failing heroes trapped in an icy mould Dreaming of the roles they’d play but stumbling for words for that secret string of actions to make their true selves heard uncertain of the casting, while extras seem absurd […]
It’s not the unknown minefield that you have to tread with care it’s the same old barren wasteland where the bombs are all laid bare Because the scars of new explosions are a potential yet unseen but the wounds that were inflicted fuel a pain that is still keen And […]
The Author, he approaches jaw all frozen stiff lips a bloody grimace his tongue averse to risk his eyes a dead eyed challenge to the world to be a myth his hands two tired instruments worn down from all the grift His past’s already written the future held in mind […]
Dedicated to the two thousand recently murdered by Boko Haram in Nigeria. No act of religion and no act of an evil ‘other’. Just a reaction by the same voices as echo across the rest of the world, those who seek to divide, suppress and control humanity in the service […]
Fistfuls of sand making a delicate castle Collapsed fifty times before by nature’s tides, by human feet by my own shaky handed defects Through bad intent or noble indifference the walls crumbled just the same But now base materials mix with the sweat of effort moulding disparate grains into hasty […]
Closed eyes avoiding the inescapable avoiding the endless fall of a cliff face crashing down to bright rivers bordered by currents to consume Feet on icy paths glare blinding in the sun and with open eyes the desire to run to fall and fly to waters deep a moment to […]