To sleep so deeply beneath a full moon that I awaken at 3am, certain it is 5 I make coffee and sip, before I check the time And sigh This is too early to begin the day and I am suddenly tired Wide awake at 5 Half awake at 3 I don’t why such arbitrary […]
There are days that fail us We strive to do everything to the best of our ability And still After all that energy Nothing goes right Twenty-four hours in a day Seven days in a week Fifty-two weeks in a year Days do not fail They turn into another and another We just haven’t got […]
The silence of being alone Appliances hum and whirr and click Fire crackles happily munching down on sticks of wood Reducing what was once solid to ash And the pages of my book whisper, as if loathe to break the spell A cup of tea steams quietly And I am utterly content Time spent alone […]
Everything that we are exists in the present moment Uncomfortable with our limitations we run Into the bottle The thin white line Of roads or drugs or shopping carts Empty boxes And empty hands Burning Ashes to ashes Dust to dust A life spent outside of ourselves is never enough When a decision is made […]
What relevance is religion in the year of our Lord 2022? Oh my God, what if? What if my God? Two completely different questions, asked from a completely different emotional standpoint One is panicked and frightened , more a rhetorical question then anything The other a gentle query, uttered with steady faith, a peaceful heart, […]
It’s Sunday morning and I’m lying in a sunbeam in my bed So many things to do today are roaming around my head Their footsteps are loud, urgent, pacing and it sets my heart to racing, I am almost about to rise When a Butcher birds song cuts through the glass door, cuts through the […]
Sparkling lights of a Ferris wheel Carry me up so high Over the trees A vast ocean breathes As I turn on this circle in the sky The cage that holds me gently sways My cheeks are sore from smiling Dark sky New moon Stars Surrounded by those I love Most A slide of winter […]
I open my mouth And the world tumbles out I cannot stuff it back in It’s out now, rolling Holding on to the sides of its rounded shape I cling, fingernails rasping I lose my grip It slips Running over me I watch it turn over and over Far below it tumbles onto the sharp […]
Turning the mind to face itself Making a decision that I can live with One thing I’ve learnt is There is no up or down Negative Positive It’s all one direction Forward And I’ll deal with the consequences as they arise It’s called living an autonomous life *in supporting someone I love through a difficult […]
Half of my life (if I’m lucky, and I tend to think that with the better health choices I make – the luckier I become) is over. I don’t feel fifty and kind people tell me, I don’t look it either My exterior has changed a little but it’s the interior that has shifted drastically […]
