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
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
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’
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
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