If I did it all again I’d Love you like there was no end Love had deserted me I never deserved it From where I found myself I could not ask for help I was swimming out of my depth A disorientated heart, Reaching for anything to make it feel less Something other than... Continue Reading →
Each Hill Until
For Dad I think of you In places you have never been Just to imagine Me showing you Things only I have seen I think of you in the places that you loved Just to have you back a little with each step, As if you never left I think of you at the top... Continue Reading →
The Path of Least Resistance
Taking the path of least resistance Through this room full of stationary feet and souls Unmoved and unmoving They are going nowhere fast And I ask What would I be gaining If I took another path? Denying myself all that I cannot bare to see go wasted And craving all that I cannot have in... Continue Reading →
Last Summer
I wanted to show you stretched out fields kept behind gates, To lean over them and lay within, hidden in an embrace Take you to the breaking of the day And spend the rest of it with you putting it all back together again I was going to take you far away To those places... Continue Reading →
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 →
Happiness Home-Grown
I tried buying it But my bid was not high enough I looked in the January sales But they had not ordered enough So I’ll have to make my own: Happiness home-grown I tried finding it in other people But that just halved their own I tried holding onto it In the hope that it... Continue Reading →
North and South
Are we too tired to chase our dreams? To reach North then head South And run the pavement out of town Redwood trees and golden sands Us walking hand in hand Love is simple Notebooks with pencilled plans Practicing our first dance Love is feeling the same at the same time In wooden huts in... Continue Reading →