I won’t stop loving you Not for all the angels in the afterlife Nor billions in the bank Not for all the colourful clown fish of the coral reef Not for all the doors in Georgian Dublin streets I won’t stop loving you Not for the exchange of everything I ever wanted for everything I... Continue Reading →
I Want You to Know
Your heart will break It will try to mend by loving more But will never fill back up But Love anyway Your hopes will all prove wrong Everything will... Continue Reading →
Love Never Fades
Love In imperfection In daylight And in indifference Love With no regrets With no boundaries No doubt Love means there is no question For you know it is the answer Your heart speaks to its other It never gives up on you It patiently waits Love takes you back home Love never fades Love outlasts... Continue Reading →
Holding a Torch
With me and you It’s like a moth to a flame I keep coming back Despite the memory Of being hurt To be hurt again I have come to expect it And I think the problem lies Not in you wanting to hurt me I cannot accept this But because you do not realise How... Continue Reading →
Melting Hearts
You grabbed me and kissed me all over That was just the start Pulled me in closer Heart touching heart Our noses bumped together (You ripped off my sweater) And our lips knew nothing of the world But each other’s For a good ten minutes (A great ten minutes) Then without warning You threw your... Continue Reading →
The Sand Moves with the Stars
If I could take all those things back Give you a better me Who you’d never want to leave I would If I could speak from the heart Without the fear of it being Torn apart Maybe I would Say that from afar Just like a tiny grain of sand Looking up at the distant... Continue Reading →
Flowers through Frost
I can only imagine How you look in the first light As reality hits your half open eyes What order your dreams fall in And how they land like first snow Falling from sunny skies I can only compare you To things I do not fully understand But still believe in with no doubt To... Continue Reading →
The Frequency of Conch Shells
My mistake was a common one: Believing you When you said that you were OK I never got to tell you Success is too often measured by how full your life is Instead of how often you feel alive In those moments of perfect stillness Where your heart can reconnect With mountains and shorelines And... Continue Reading →
Memory Foam Heart
You said you'd never forget me That your heart was like memory foam It held me safely in place I had to remind you That every time I leave Memory foam forgets my shape Forget my name Memory foam heart Forget my shape, Forget my form And when I am gone Forget what I said... Continue Reading →