Time It runs through my fingers Flies through the window Leaving me restless Where would I have been had I shut the opening Blocked the call of endless potential And simply let some things stick *I have an endless capacity for change. Picking up one thing, I love it and learn everything about it. Sometimes […]
Last week, my head was different Last week, some things mattered more than others And the things that mattered then Have been reduced to nothing this week I see now This week, the things that matter Will not be the same as the next Nor the one after Or the one after that And whilst […]
Atrophy We are born to die To peak and decline Stars burning bright Until they burst Disintegrate Become star dust Our energy dispersed to live again It is the way of nature The universe We cannot buck the trend It’s not a matter of if But when So live while you can And enjoy the […]
Swirling paint Tapestry woven There are things which are said More left unspoken In the spaces between What was done And said Are the things we don’t have Those we never expect Choosing this Sometimes means leaving another The price of what’s done Is unspent Untried Untested Lifetimes are made Of unfinished canvases And the […]
I used to have a little people pleaser Located near my feet And whenever I got frowned upon The closer I would creep Try and fix Whatever was wrong With everyone It was exhausting So I finally threw it in the bin Now when someone frowns at me I produce my sunniest smile And continue […]
The moon has woken me Through the double doors it shines Relentless I could draw the curtain Go back to sleep But that seems a waste of illumination We cannot hide from light Neither the moons Nor our own Nor other people’s I used to be all the time Wanting to escape to a mountain […]
Life It’s a funny thing Who it blows out Who it brings in What I’ve discovered is this You can’t go chasing after people like they’re some empty paper packet Drifting down the paddock If you do that You have no energy for greeting the beauty You just breathed in *And my God, life is […]
Everything you perceive you project If you perceive yourself to be strong capable amazing and talented this is what you will project however if you perceive yourself to be failing useless unconfident shy bumbling foolish not good enough Guess what? This is exactly what you project Stop worrying about what other people think it doesn’t […]
The shell is not the nut The bite you eat Is not the wrapping Don’t confuse the unravelling with the gift The teaching is not in the test The score But in the lesson You have to wait Read more into everything Before reaching for the next level Of anything you want to achieve And […]
Your life is an anagram – the word itself can become file How do you file things? Files are interactive – like anagrams – you can move them around, discard those things that you don’t want any more – stand by a burner and watch things go up in flames Ashes to ashes, dust to […]
