Litter the pathway With leaves of solid gold Take your worn down boots And creaking knees To the places you truly want to go I’ve seen nothing to excite me But the prospect of ignoring All that gets at the things I surround myself with Hoping I won’t drown In the tide of terror I … Continue reading Betterment
Is it all downhill from here? The pounds make the sense out of a life That used to be about breath But is now just a digital impression Of a physical touch Breath in the binary If only to see How fake it all can be Tag the drag And leave the lag Behind When … Continue reading Questions
A hidden agenda Enough to bend a Mind towards A willingness to reward Nothing But punish everything Watching me On CCTV The powers that be Allow you to be free As long as you’re in their palm All harm All foul All sour taste On wagging tongues Coughing lungs More wretching Than breathing More complaining … Continue reading Virus
Look at you Thirty two With a frown upon your face While something is happening to time You’re out of touch You ache too much Your music is now “retro” And you cannot let go Of when it all seemed so magnificent There’s rooms to rent But not to buy And you’re asking why You have … Continue reading Birthday
Would you think of me As a billion pieces of something Worth remembering? The graveyards are full And my Anglo Saxon features Curl up and are damp Betrayed by biology To no ones great relief The collective insanity Is how we found out That alcohol can only mask so much The person the night before … Continue reading Memento
The moon is there And it’s as full as the pride You left behind On the road well walked It’s moving With the words We talked And our moods Are laced with whisky Trust me We’ll make it through this Benial twist When the waiting’s over And the dog’s run over We can weep all … Continue reading Whisky
This one goes out To the most insane people I’ve ever met The ones who look you up and down Wide eyed with absent concentration Trying to focus on life as much as your face This one’s for the furtive ones Slight and disillusioned Sleeking through the shadows To find somewhere to call home And … Continue reading Insane
Each eyelid Closing slowly You know me I don’t deal well with death And all it’s emptiness On the brink Of a sorry state of breakdown Whimper sounds Expound From a sore throat Eyeballs are boats The little wooden kind The ones that always find It hard to navigate Flowing floods of loss I am … Continue reading Navigate
Don’t ask questions You don’t want the answers to They’re snakes In the wicker basket of your gut Thrashing around Venomous Vitriolic And I’m not convinced you want to get on that train You won’t like the destination Remain at the station Remain patient Stare into the distance Looking through the mist on The fifth day … Continue reading Fifth
Good morning Is the call to arms For the troubled man Tripping over washed clothes That stay in the kitchen so long It starts to feel like the bedroom Dodging last night’s pizza A lazy reminder of how empty the fridge is Huffing at the toilet roll holder Sitting empty like a wooden bridge I’ll … Continue reading Wednesday
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