As I sit here smoking my cigarette...

I realise I will never die

because, I have never lived

never breathed in the air of a new day

without attaching the exhaust to it.

Never tasted a kiss

anew (anew anew FOR GODS sake, let us be seated)

always tinged with sadness and regret

like the parting from you mother (BLAME BLAME just open the wine)

does she wish I was another

...

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when one touches

a thousand fall by the way,

each and every caress said in a movement

when all reason is at bay

 

When one touches

a thousand take their arms away,

release poison into another open wound

to gather fever

to turn all reason to clay

 

When one is touched

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Paris is beautiful

knee deep in French blood

stepped over by my Muslim brothers

it's understood

 

you saw him in a doorway

heard him chant

“where doing this in Allah's name”

saw him collect groceries and a few chemicals in between

 

but you did nothing ...

but step over French blood

it's understood ..

 

as it's western and impure

holds the values ...

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I Have Killed My Child

I'm sure the police will understand

 

It was clingy, needy

mama mama all

the time

it deserved the back

of my hand.

 

Bah

 

I Have Killed My Child

it was clingy, needy,

fretful all the time

 

It would cause confusion and pain

with my love, only happy

when they were over and done.

 

Turned kisses into salt

repulsed th...

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Every mobile is on silent

every mail unread

every touch of human kindness unsaid

 

every day you wait

in the bus queue

behind the door

just waiting for someone to say

“you can take no more”

 

but...

 

Every mobile is on silent

every mail unread

every touch of human kindness is unsaid

 

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this is a holy death
ripping straight through
the hopes of those taken
and those that will miss them ..

at the bus stop
coffee bar
school yard
work place 
canteen

So many empty seats 
never to be filled again 
Holes in each and every Turk

this was your holy death
your passport to celestial angels 
and Allah's warm embrace

and if he is there ? 
to meet you ?
then...
your r...

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Can I remember my   password; sorry I meant are the frozen peas still in my bag

 

Mushy I am

 

I leave bank cards in a supermarket pay out tills

The whole of Wirral is riding round on bus passes I leave

 

Mushy I am

 

Droplets of my money

Are rolling down your street

 

I type in endless passwords

All wrong of course

I’ve given my bank pin number

To a te...

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Do you remember getting lost?

On the path you never took

Spent a life time being a stranger and always forgetting to return that look

 

Always a second behind that big break

Moving scene

Just a bit part in life’s big movie screen

 

When all were gathered to be cast in their part

Dentist, doctor, perfect father

You forgot your part 

 

Fluffed the lines,

 Stumb...

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We like humans, justice and peace

You like to rig the ballot

And Blair out Mandelson

“Let’s get back to the centre ground when we really didn’t give a shit, power at all costs, we were the new Labourcons

 

We can’t Corby wrong

 

We like the idea that the working class are not forgotten,

That are towns are not pound- stretched. That people queue to get their hard earned pay,...

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We’ve put them back in power but
Lost the protest 
And song
Don’t storm the barracks
Only the boxing day sales 

It’s 1979 and we’ve put them back in power again
Singing power ballads on x factor while our power is cut off
Queue up at food banks while RBS ration their mass profits to a select few 
Not you 

It’s 1979 again
But we’re motionless
Sleepwalking
Without a care in the world
...

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They lose the bigger picture
Under this beautiful blue sky
Want you to worry about triviality 
That if you don’t meet the deadline you will die

But you know the smell of morning coffee
And the kindness of strangers that raise a smile 
As big as this morning sun
That you didn’t let pass by 


Let them get trapped and eaten up by the day
You will look at the spider’s web 
And what beau...

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I slipped out of

Life....

When Thatcher

Digged in her heels

 

Ripped the heart out of my life

“Can you spare a cigarette please?”

 

I slipped onto this park bench

When Cameron rode into town

Guns a blazing

“I’m taking the poor down “

“Spare 50p for a can”

 

Spare a thought

 For those ...

Born, growing, hoping

This is a fair world

 

And then,

...

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I COME, I GO

 

I come, I go

 

I made mistakes I know

I repeated them over and over again

You know....

 

 Troubled birth a dusty death

I laid shrapnel on this earth,

Yep I was a mess..

 

I come, I go

I love I lost

I reached out my hand

To see it bitten of 

 

I tried to stay true

When confronted with lies 

 

I tried to hang on

Even when ...

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When 
I see the word
Music
I do not think of war

When i see children playing
I do not think
Bombs will fall

When I 
See lovers kissing
I don’t see
Bombs placed under ground

 

And
When I see you
Open up to me, 
I do not 
Fear a sound

 

 

(c) David R Mellor 2015

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Danger in our bed

Danger in our head

 

The warning is severe

Keep on your toes

Hopping mad

“Why does that Asian anxiously look at me, is he bad?”

 

Any moment now you could be gunned down and

Btw don’t drink or think

 

We’ll do it for you

Tell you what’s right or wrong

Tell you who to hate

And by how much

 

We’ll keep your pockets empty

And ours s...

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Absent Father’s Day

 

Coupled together

Then ripped apart

My friend cries out in the dark

 

 

Remembers the pitter patter of tiny steps

Now alone in his bed sit with regrets

 

Coupled together

Warm and snug

The memories fade like the picture

On the mantelpiece

 

No words can explain

Or comfort the vacant lot

Of fathers tonight

Who have all

 B...

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The phone slammed down with wails of disbelief, “Why can’t I see my kids?”

 

The phone pitted out with the cries, “She doesn’t love me anymore.”

 

The facebook status read, “I’d be better off dead.”

 

And all of this in just a few moments from the earth, that is dead

 

ISA chop heads, boats floating aimlessly in the med, governments blame you for your misfortune from the co...

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The NEW Ten Commandments

You shall have no other gods before shopping You shall make false idols or other reality TV shows. You shall take the name of the LORD your God in vain, because WTF.  Remember the Sabbath day, is a good day to get pissed Tell your father and your mother to fuck off. Knobheads You shall murder anyone who upsets you You shall commit adultery, by searching o...

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I’m boiling at 14 degrees

I’m boiling at 14 degrees 
Where is the love of my life ,please

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I didn't realise how bad life could be 
Until I realised I was me

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There is no party of the poor

 

It’s time to lay down the law

There is no party of the poor

They all cosy in to get that marginal seat

They don’t give a fuck if you can’t eat

 

Its time....

To slay the law

Because there is no party of the poor

 

No matter how often we cry it’s unjust!!

My neighbours tittering on the brink

of a motorway bridge

 Debt letter ...

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A life laid out.

 

All my life was laid out before them

Broken dreams and promises

Sacks full of garbage on the floor

Plates piled high

Cds naked, books half open

Letters unread, is this what happens to the dead?

 

A life laid out before ..

Like a bomb site they have to muscle through

These are the days without you

 

When it opened like a wet banger

 The s...

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Shut Down

Leave the key in the door
Because there’s nothing to take out of Britain anymore

You've squeezed us
Blood red dry
Even a few disabled had to die

Leave the key in the door
Because there’s nothing left in Britain anymore

Hope turned into despair
And those who want for nothing
Clapping with cheery smiles 
As the Plebs put them through the door

Shut Down.

Leave the k...

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I voted conservative

I voted conservative because i don’t like myself 
You are a nigger that should fuck off home 
I voted conservative because i don’t like myself

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X marks the spot ,  it will hurt

 

X marks the spot

It will hurt.

 

I don’t give a fuck about politics

Just my pound in the pocket

Cut the NHS

To the bare bone

Send that immigrant home

 

X marks the spot

It will hurt

 

But not me

I’ve got tax free savings

A mansion with no tax

Nothing will hurt me

 

And then...

 

I’m relying on an expe...

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Hillsborough 96

Pissed on
Shit upon
Stolen our pride
Fiddling the statements 
Of those that you let die

Gone past  the cut of point of caring
Who was left in the pile?

Leaving the ambulances revving
No need to push through
They're only football supporters not like me and you

Conceited and arrogant blaming the dead for dying 
Hats off to those who never gave up trying.

 

...

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THE LAST..LINE

The battery of my mobile had died
The bus was so full not enough room, even to sigh
I opened the door and the internet connection was down
My husband greeted me with a faint smell of another’s perfume

I sat down...

Fumbled through the day
Pulled out my failings
And those that had ripped into me

Bruised, damaged, I’m sure.
Not enough energy to mingle with another’s ...

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The Thin Thread

How hopeless, it appears
as a leaf 
flows...
so gently 
as a tear

How quickly, the news fills
our day
like a woodland waiting...
for our eyes to see

How quickly, we cling
to a news, thread
instead...
of seeing that spider
spin its beautiful web

How quickly?
we become blinded to the day
and search out darkness
which comes...
what May

 

(c) David r Me...

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You Turned the Corner

 

You

Turned the corner,

Broke the cord

Put 150 bodies on the floor

 

Now each depressive

Will be asked and put through the mill

I wonder if Jane or Paul could

Well you know....

 

You turned

The corner...

And placed your hands calmly on the control

Keys

 

And now I fear it will spiral...

And your actions will hurt ..

Yo...

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I saw tiny droplets of light

 

Where i thought there were none ..

When I thought my light bulb was fading

I turned the corner

And there was someone

 

Above the sluice

And into a dream

A calm place, where I could relax and dream..

 

The light wasn’t fading..

The glimmer

Turned in to a power surge

That left us shaking

In your bathroom

And  on the stair...

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All of us live

But some die

Reaching out for the hors d’oeuvres

Or a child so hungry they can’t cry

 

And it’s all a matter of birth..

Your  fault

 

You were born

In a place with no water

Whilst others spill champagne on the floor

 

All of us live

But some of us die..

Reaching out for a nibble

Whilst a child is so hungry they can’t cry

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Nothing to say ....

The governments deserted the poor
I.S is screaming at our door 
There’s wanton killings in your city every night
Whether you’re black or 
Whether you’re white

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For my “good” friend Pat Cliffe”

 

Harry Cliffe

 

It was only sperm

But was covered in love

Brought Harry into our

Arms...

But you decided I was no good

 

Stopped the visits

And phone calls

 

The memories of pretend sword fights

And creating the football player you called “ Bob Sponge” on now ancient PS2

Fading like the picture of you ten years of age

...

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Slapping Christ’s face

 

Which way is Allah and who slapped Christ’s face

Why is the secret of life forgetting

And remembering nothing in the first place.

I can’t beg for forgiveness... on a Walmart floor

For having so little pennies

I tell the cashier god loves me more

 

Which way do I pray to Tesco’s or M and S?

Which offers forgiveness more than a nice dress

Can...

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Our Seabed

I’m feeling lazy…
So I take my thoughts to the bottom of the
Seabed

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YOU STOP TIME

Time heals

Time kneels

Too quick

Too fast

Too slowly

Over painful moments

Quicker…

At the moments

We want to last

 

It opens the day

And closes our eyes.

And I’m happy at

Every beat of our day

And the moments

Spent…

In your eyes

 

© David R Mellor 2015

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TWO DAUGHTERS

 

I painted with you

But lost the plot

Would carry you when your legs were broken

Or a splinter in your eye

 

Would rock you to sleep

And dress up in disguise

 

The years have rocked by ..

With many thorns brushing our side

But no pin prick took away our love

 

It was built on Disney films

Books from libraries  

Imaginary games we playe...

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The world beats a drum
Of hope and despair

Your friend 
Is suffering 
And he thinks the world doesn't care

The world wails darkly
In the avenues 
Of your bed

And each morning waits
With a gun to your head

The world beats madly
With people round the bend 
Twisted and distorted 
Turning hope to disrepair

But i am watching over you
Turning vile words into wine
Letting you kn...

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And you who know so much better

 

 

Want to snuff out his life

That he’s this and that

Was so much of a poor husband?

 

Doesn’t deserve to see his sun

Or the time of day

Never gave me affection

I will take his son away

 

Deny him access

Let him fester and rot

 

I am so much better

I hope YOU

 fester and rot

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I’M FIGHTING WITH THE CLOCK

I’m fighting with the clock
When all else fails
When you know you can’t run any faster
And you’re like a donkey after its tail

The seconds speed by 
In the moments lost waiting for this and that
And people are barking orders to control each 
Moment of your day
That you take home their worries
Spoiling your evening when you should be at bay

I’m fighting ...

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Die by the Sword

 

It’s time to put niceties away

Switch off diplomacy

And thinking things will get better someday

 

Time to stop tuning in

To another head hitting the floor

And have the courage to do more

 

Let each nation put troops

On the grounds

And if they don’t surrender?

Well.......

You live by the sword

So you must die by it 

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A bad day

So I look up at the clouds
And know above 
There are stars
And that there is silence
No cost cutting
Or mental scares

And i’m small
And i want to be 
so lost
insignificant
you in me

So i look into the clouds 
And know you are not far away

Only a call away

To say it will be better today

(c) David R Mellor 2015

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GOD LOVES EVERYTHING

Allah is so weak
He needs a bullet in the back
My head to fall
Thousands crying
Does he want more?

No 

Jesus is so weak
Can’t hold the cross
Jews at the Wailing Wall 
No territory to give back

Buddhists boring 
Forgiving every word

To me you are all obsessed,

God loves everything 

(c) David R Mellor 2015

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This life is scaring 
The life
Out of me

Whether it’s the neighbour banging
Or a bomb on the road

This world is
Taking the life
Out of me

Droplets of tears flow
From the screen
Whether from Pakistan 
Or Paris 
And all places in-between

This world
Is scaring
Life out of me

(C) David R Mellor 2015

 

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Alone

 

I used to buy toilet paper

for 4 now just for one

so I get the 2 pack

the half loaf

the small pack of marge

 

Open the door of my

one bedroom flat

make a cup of tea for

One

listen to songs by people

missing someone

 

Make my single bed

turn round to see no one

wake up, kiss no one goodbye

shed tears that no one

will see

 

Come ...

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DEATH is shit...

 

Death is shit

Whether it’s short

Or lingering

Death is shit

 

There may not be a heaven

There might not be a hell

 

We’ve probably not done enough

To get into either

 

So...

 

The black hole is it

 

 

(c) David R Mellor 2015

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Martin Luther King (let’s turn back to You)

Hands up those who can light a flame to you
Or even gather in your shadow
A light that burns so bright
To cast out darkness and shadowy light

No ifs or buts no one was left out of your humanity
All loved until dust
All precious all stone
Allah Jesus or Buddha’
You’ve left a deep and hollow stone
That hatred has walked into
Let’s remember
...

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Martin Luther King (let’s turn back to You)

Hands up those who can light a flame to you
Or even gather in your shadow
A light that burns so bright
To cast out darkness and shadowy light

No ifs or buts no one was left out of your humanity
All loved until dust
All precious all stone
Allah Jesus or Buddha’
You’ve left a deep and hollow stone
That hatred has walked into
Let’s remember
...

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EVERYONE’S A KNOBHEAD

 

Everyone’s a knobhead

Full of shit

Hanging on to their mobile phones

As if their life depended on it

 

 

Trashing a neighbour

With darker skin

Looking at all men as if they’re potential rapists or paedophiles

Where do I begin?

 

To drown out the noise of those full of shit

Complaining they might get cancer if they get a whiff of my ...

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Love, tolerance and freedom will prevail “, no words can describe the terror caused in Paris today 
( an old poem same story)

You’re so God like (I.S)

Ahead of the pack
Making someone’s fall
Bringing families to their knees
Doing it for Allah ?
No please……………….

You’re so god like 
Marching people to death
You can decide who’s worthy 
Of life 
And who should have …..death

You’r...

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