S and W Bookend a no And keep it from Escaping Winter is falling Upon hills forgotten Now transformed Ramps of my dreams Ben returns To this moment For his feast For he has been starved Puffing as I play With giddy feelings Banished From a serious life The thickening snow Disguises My uncontrolled Explosion I just look mad And overgrown Free Running I’ve grown so far away From this The boy who ran and played Till fingers fell numb So I’ll wait Till the light fades And pretend For a little longer Don’t leave My glimpse Of a younger time In the glistening white
Category Archives: Poems
May I rest
May I rest here And soak in your breath Down to warm my Inside May I rest my hand Into your clutch And let my heart flutter Tonight May I rest now In this sheltered place Of red and glass And heat May I rest in peace Where this all began Take me back to that Winter light

Under warm sheets
I can hear the clock ticking Under these cotton sheets I am warm As the storm arrives The ticking darts in and out Like a fairy And as it builds It deafens Echoing around my mind Like the swirling winds That bellow From outside But inside I am taken over By a clock intent On rattling me It is crazing me out This fucking crick crack noise I’m at my end Striking out Then calm Submerged in the sound Somehow the anger collapses it And sounds pass over my head Like a passing boat To the fish swimming beneath The sounds muffle In endless space A peace After all that I am present Under these warm sheets

Man friend
Slipping through my fingers like butter Down onto the crystal dish Friends My chance of a civilised life Why do I forget To love proactively Why are relationships like these Such a test of heart I withhold my need for others I cradle me Without care to cradle those I could befriend To die bereft of friendship To have walked this earth alone Is to have experienced man’s modernity My unnecessary way What i’d do To break free of my compulsion To love To give

Homeless and high
Lucid Tripping tracks in my mind Misty Breaking down outside Solemn At the end of the high Weakened Under lonely sky Sore In between my toes Rotting Out these bones Waiting For the night to come Hit By the piercing sun Trapped In this aging cave Fear Fleshly laid Arrived I’m here to hit Rush My life is lit Birds To fly up there Soaring Fresh night air Wishing I could go somewhere

Morning haze
It’s in my eyes I blink faster to wake I drift in and out Of the two worlds I know One of truths bent Mysteries I uncover in the night Where a representation fools me Into thinking I can This place is lighter Harder to reach And rarely do I go there for long Or out of choice It’s hard to know why I do Escape perhaps Or the cauldron where my thoughts rest Before meeting their reality This second place Is my waking place I am woken by it And it’s serious fumes There is no denying it’s importance As my eyes blink the gravity sets in My skin rests harder On the bed where I sleep The haze has gone now Eyes peeled head cleared I have returned back from my travels And the mist of my morning mind

Germs
You cut my every morsel Grip and pull it downwards My earlobes hang like lead When you visit Germs I’m not your safe space you know The place to go when it gets cold I’m a person in here But you play your game Rip rip - then you laugh at me I don’t know if you know this But when you come I would swap everything in the world For you to leave Me That probably ignites another of your cackles doesn’t it That rattles In my vertebrae As this chest Weakens I want to say I’ll win Kick you But I am succumbing To your Serum

Spit
1 Those fucking words won’t come Out under the melting tongue Spit your truth From the booth Wish I could 2 Verse is stuck Blocked and chocked Dry lips No good I should 3 Rhyme out Structure in Pop your mind Shoot the Shit -

Eat
I cannot configure This view Absent of you Time without Punctuating commas Like this A routine Lunch or Breakfast Dinner maybe To hold This moment The inevitability Of these Years Is their pace Day to Day All the while Held By this Just sit And eat With me

Baby shampoo
I stand and wash in this syrup It is soft and yellow and gentle and kind Drip drip I taste the golden tang Open my eyes and remind myself Sting sting It’s like the bath you washed me in The one I splashed in Luke warm Now it comes down from above Raining memories Drop drop
