Archive | November, 2023

Brake me, it’ll make me

13 Nov

You can win if you want to

I don’t wanna play your game

You can run if you want to

I don’t wanna hear your name

You can dream if you want to

Everything will be revealed to you

You can cry if you want to

Who do you want to catch your tears?

You can hold me if you need to

I’ll always be there for you

Little Hands and Little Feet

12 Nov

Little hands

Placed in mine

Always thinking

If you’ll be fine

Little feet

I pretend to eat

While changing your nappy

Just to make you happy

Little tears

And little fears

Comforting cuddles

Jumping in puddles

Crossing roads

Amazed by toads

Looking at all the animals

On the wall

Catching you

When you’re about to fall

Playing your favourite game

Wrapping up warm

Running in from the rain

All the wonder

And all the joy

All the learning

Your new favourite toy

Little hands and little feet

Running

Jumping

Dancing

Scooting

Swirling round and around

With music in the air

Little hands and little feet

You make my heart go

Beat beat beat

Mirror

11 Nov

A reflection that

Echoes for centuries

A glimmer

Of introspection

That shatters

All illusion

To fragmented

Particles

Of youth

Pure truth

Of propheticism

And brutality

Being strangled

Aged six

Beaten up

With blood pouring

From my nose

Drenching my pink

T-shirt

The delicate air

Deflated from my bicycle tyres

By these broken teenagers

Two Girls

Bruised more than me

The fear I’d never felt

Longing for my mother’s

Cuddles

Alone

The trauma

Of the abuse

Under that weeping

Willow tree

People are going through

So much at the moment

Their pain and struggles

I feel it in my fragile

Core

Yet the tribal strength

That Phoenix

Brings from the ashes

Of naked torment

With her golden

Feathers

And a wing span

That covers

A galactic universe

Caught in the lightning

Screaming at the

Tectonic plates

To remain calm

When their fury

Has me thinking

About 2024

Serenity

Safety

Solace

Synchronicity

Selfless

Stability

Sanctuary

Significance

Serendipitous

Solipsism

Surrender

To your mind, naked flesh

And blood

To flourish

Free their souls

And ‘run to the rescue

With love’

Solitary Confinement

5 Nov

I can smell the concrete

The baron cold

The windowless cell

The fear beneath my feet

The enveloping darkness

The harshest rations

The metal bars

To where freedom reigns

The madness of solitude

The desperation of thirst

Quenches my cracked lips

Pacing

Always pacing

Counting

The never ending numbers

Crouching on the floor

With my head between my knees

The years

So long ago

The torture and blood

Skinny to the bone

I often think about people

In solitary confinement

And visit them

My spirit is everywhere

Forests’ bare

Setting alight with rage

Dreaming of rain

To nourish the earth

When it’s cracked

And breached

And broken

Caress the air

Fly free

You wonder

Why freedom

Is so important to me

You won’t appreciate it

Until it’s taken away

Crimson sunset

Hands that heal

Innocents jailed

For millennia

The suffering is worse

Than death

I don’t blame them

For taking crystal meth

In another universe

These aliens have a certain language

The way they move their hands

You can communicate

With everything

Technology beyond your imagination

Capabilities beyond recognition

Lie still

Peace

Zen

Solitude

Confinement

Breathe

And as the seconds feel like hours

Take haste

Escape

In your land of dreams

Dimensions expand

No space and

No time

Illusive dance

My magic trance