Love is patient Love is kind Love is not envious Or rude … Except it is sometimes It is all those things And yet we still call it love Pick up the phone when it rings Slam it down Get angry Hurt Confused And I really wish Corinthians had written about that Told the truth […]
We are born alone And we die alone At our happiest and most triumphant We are alone And when we at our most forlorn When we mourn We are alone too These moments are when we are closest To the heart of who we really are Either becoming Or going Arriving Departing Heartfelt and excruciating […]
To bend a stick breaks it If pushed too far Everything snaps It’s who we are Real things Are fragile The neck of a bird That flies into glass The necklace I pull in anger And the pot That drops On my clumsy way past Behind all these things And in everything that we do […]
This is exciting stuff. For me at least – you all are about to get spammed – but just this once. 🙄😁😂 Remember how I wrote that post a week or so back about Kicking your own donkey (if not – a quick recap – it was about shifting paradigms and why it was important to […]
Why do we hoard it Saved for a rainy day A special thing Sacred I blame religion Worshipping just one deity In trying to love only one person, one family, one thing We limit ourselves Why not love a community A country A world Everything And everybody Why not love all those that are unloveable […]
Blind man walking Take me there I hold your hand I breathe the air Tap tap tap Back to the lesson Learn it this time Close my eyes Subconscious rises Tap tap tap Blind man walking Follow the guide Trust in the cane His shuffling stride Tap tap tap Out in front dwells What we […]
Windy days When the leaves scatter like living things Marching past me as I sit On this step My face to the sun Windy days When the washing flaps on the line turning inside out And sheets are possessed with a need to wrap me in their folds As I patiently peg One peg Two […]
Amidst the day to day I lose it Slips down behind the washing machine Tucked under a stack of clothes Buried under paperwork I can’t see it in the orders To do this and that The phone calls Taken and dialled on the run I can’t see you For the jostle of everyone Wanting Something […]
But what is this courage? It does not look like a parade Or a medal Certificate Citation Award It is back bowed Defiant chin Arms wrung out From holding it in It vomits It shakes It looks deep inside To find what it takes It is not valour and victory Laurel wreathes wilting under hot […]
Nothing is as bad as your mind makes it Fear is a liar Prone to hysterical meanderings Don’t listen to it When you get out of your head To do what you have to do Remember your angels will be there too But they can’t help you while you prevaricate and cringe listening to the […]
