And now she sleeps
I thought tonight
When my daughter came to me
And she’d woken up
Crying
The first thing I said
Was
It’s ok
And I hugged her
Not are you ok
Or it will be ok
or
what's the matter?
Just and simply
It is ok
And I wonder
Why we don’t say that
To grown up children
Instinctively
Before
We say or do
Anything else
Wednesday 31st August 2022 11:41 pm
The lobster bucket
I can tell
You
What you want to
Hear
Or I can tell
You what you
Don’t
And I know what
It is
that you’ll choose
And I know what
You’ll choose to hear
Whichever way
I put the words
Because
Everyone
Is to blame
And Everyone
Is blameless
These things
Don’t happen by
Accident
And they don’t happen
On purpose
Either...
Tuesday 16th August 2022 11:20 pm
Morning has broken
It's a morning of
Infinite possibilities
And everything
Might change
Showers heavy
Thunder likely
Time to cut away
This knee high rough
Heads are in the valley
Waiting to
Break the news
Afraid of losing
Their ground
Habits are shaped
Dependency and addiction
Form
And the lady of sunlight
Crashes through
The clouds
Shaking her golden locks
...Thursday 28th July 2022 10:02 pm
All the same to me
All in all
Things work out
It seems to me
That this is just
What they do
So you can
If you choose
Worry about
This way
And that path
This person
And that monster
You can lose sleep
Over tonight
Or tomorrow
Or today
Or the things
That have already
Happened
Or you can
Simply
Let them happen
An old man once
Said to me
Let be
Be
And though
I understood the words
I d...
Friday 15th July 2022 7:23 pm
In This World
In this world
There are
Many things
Some things
Are better
And some things
Are worse
And some of the
Better things
Are actually worse
And some of the
Worse
Are actually
Better
I digress
But there are
Always things
And what you
Do with them
Or without them
Is the measure
Is the weight
Of your soul
At the...
Sunday 19th June 2022 8:13 pm
The point of everything
Once upon a time
There was a question
But I didn’t really
Understand
What the question
Was supposed to be
Or which shape it had taken
Or how it looked
Or felt
Or maybe
I was too busy
Thinking
About the answer
To give the
Question
The time
And the energy
And the respect
For it to
Be
What it was
Supposed to be
...
Sunday 5th June 2022 11:36 pm
What matters
I don’t like the
Headhunters
I mean
Once upon a time
I was up for it
Heads on poles
Warn the
Fuckers
Away
Hearts on the sleeve
And all that
Clap trap
But now
Now
They haven’t even
Got the decency
To be
Secret assassins
They haven’t got the bottle
To shrink
Your head
Dress it up
With a spell
Now they take you
In...
Saturday 2nd April 2022 8:47 am
The Lamb
I wish you meant
What you said
I wish you said
What you meant
I wish I
Didn’t know
This half life
Between the
Shadows
I wish I could
Read you
Like a
Book
I wish you weren’t
The magazine
I didn’t buy
Because
I’d read it
All
Before
There are things
I could tell you
(And have)
Which I could tell
No one else...
Saturday 5th March 2022 11:34 pm
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