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What Do I Tell The Children.
What Do I Tell the Children.
I am a man I must accept the pain.
Another love I have lost again.
I freely gave you, my heart.
You happily tore it apart.
We welcomed you into our family.
Thinking we would all live quite happily.
Engaged you in my children's lives.
Believed all you're conceited lies.
You left us sitting on our own.
Just sadness and regret ...
Tuesday 8th October 2024 10:13 pm
House On The Edge of Town
More and more
my thoughts turn to you
so aware of time
I’m the age now
that you were
when the pair of you parted
you got that rented house
on the edge of town
We’d stay at weekends
watching winter’s tide sweep in
standing in the falling snow
the garden and the fields disappearing
said ‘throw another log on the fire’
said ‘dad, your house is cold’
At fifteen, I was nothing
lost i...
Monday 9th December 2019 6:01 pm
Pull Apart The Perfect Nest
So then, stick by stick
tonight we tear off strip after strip
the newest feathers first
then the older twigs and vines
with each one
my heart drops
until there's nothing left
and nowhere lower
just empty branches
where our sweet home once was
Inch by inch
we pack and divide the moss
all the soft things we've collected
years of careful, loving selection
pecking them away, each and e...
Monday 26th July 2010 1:08 pm
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