Our possessions separated in cardboard boxes marked with big red letters Stacked up all around “Things will get better” I slide through the hall, blood pressure rising up in side of me Sitting across, you in Argyle sweater Reading from a script like a well trained actor We’ve known it’s time to separate Why do [...]
You know, there are somethings in life that afterwards you feel really, really dumb. I’m not talking about life changing, earth shattering things like letting your car roll downhill into a lake, or, forgetting to take that kilo of plastique out of your luggage before an important flight (it is actually playdoe done up as [...]
Sitting alone in this cavernous room in the desert wastes far from home when lonliness creeps up from within and the war rages on I remember a place where life seemed easier seemed simpler a long, long time ago playing in the trails along Quil Ceda the creek was a new dimension where brave soldiers [...]
Outside, bounce bounce happy shiny people dancing in the crowd smiling, smiling, always smiling Outside, strong, steel and iron fearless, brave confident outspoken Inside, a different story homesick for a land stressed and strained depressed just the same afraid, sad lonely afraid of what may afraid of not knowing lonely always alone even in a [...]
I woke before dawn yesterday morning and sat there looking, breathlessly your motionless figure outlined and shadowed by oil lamp light I sat there and watched you breathing so perfectly in the early morning light your skin as soft as velvet glowing a pale white And you capture me and fill my memory like all [...]
The rising sun of anger the setting moon of life that’s the way I felt when you walked into my life I was a lonely stranger looking down a wishing well breathing softly a prayer whisper in the glowing fire light Then the clouds they parted and the sky grew wide and I saw all [...]
spinning round spinning round my wold is spinning round rotating faster faster rotating my thoughts are clamoring, clamoring like a traffic jam with no traffic man no eye in the sky what do i need to do to get through to you why won’t you talk to me why can’t i get this to work [...]
some people say they want to go to space as i look them in the face and say that is no place for me they talk about being amongst the moon and stars and galaxies so very far planets and planets here and there and all i do is stare with mouth Sahara dry i [...]
when we are young we dream of superheros of brave soldiers police and firemen their pictures in the paper songs in their name parades in their fame and days of remembrance we never look to the 2 a.m. pager red and white vest thick soled boots hard hats and papers the simple soldiers of mercy [...]
i have never been nor whilst i be a religious man that isn’t me yet, today i find myself praying against my nature against my belief whomever you may be whatever you may be i ask of you i beg of you forgive this simple man he has not done right inside he cries unable [...]
