Turn off the light, It has burnt long enough to be hot to the touch Close the curtain, It has grown dark slowly enough for the eyes to adjust The hardest part, The hardest part is waking up
Train Window
I’ve been having dreams darker than the night They found themselves in On waking I cannot rid them from my mind And I dread the dawn and the news it might bring On a train before midday I ran to the platform away from where they lay As the scenery takes me from where I... Continue Reading →
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Midnight Has Come Too Soon
Midnight has come too soon now it is nearer to the next than this one Lamentations on letting go do not have place to make themselves static Uprooted, this tumble weed brushes my eyelids closed as if the Earth would have changed when I open them again And I wander like a lost tourist through... Continue Reading →
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The Falcon
The falcon circles and can see it all but cannot do a thing Cannot reach the Earth we know; the everything and nothing Control is spinning out and folding inwards and the bird keeps on flying To think beyond our own limits is doubt entering into them To recognise our own limits is to hope... Continue Reading →
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Better Half
I’m growing weak I’m tired of trying To be someone I’m not And I’m weaker still When I’m in your arms I know that if he could have, He would have Been the one To make me be my better half He said I could be like Jekyll and Hyde And we know which was... Continue Reading →
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