Shadows of dinosaurs
On my wall
Bushy tails shaking
Communicating
Something I can’t decipher
Perhaps about a dinosaur up above
About to come down
And grasp at life with its talons
Poetry
I need to be a giant
I’m too small
For these feelings and thoughts
I need to be a giant
To keep it all contained
Inside
Feeding the Jays
Awaiting your arrival
Every day
Prepared and ready
For when you fly my way
A banquet awaiting you
My moustachioed
Squawking
Jay.
Silence 2
Not all silence is absence
But something trying to fulfil itself
Without success
Exhaled in sighs
Emptying trinkets in the shape of humans
Full of recycled baggage
Trying to return to our innocence
Facing the dilemma of our darker sides
Silence
The arrival…
Of footfalls…
The birds singing…
Wilting flowers
In the funeral home
That breath …
Sighed…
That lingering goodnight kiss
Remembered.
Footsteps…
R
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d
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Each silence has it’s own sound
Desperation in socks
You, desperation in socks
Sanity heard you coming
And changed all the locks
You wanted to be like anyone else
But you crystalised
Into yourself
Who you tryin’ to kid.
Who you tryin’ to kid anyway
You’re just a man, on the fray
Falling at the seams
Collecting the shards of all your broken dreams
Sharp enough to cut your wrists
You’ve got desperation in your eyes
It’s in your reflection
Who you despise
You want to be someone else
Who you are, makes you unwell
You’re dying but you figure
Everyone else is dying too
So what does it matter
If you linger
Isn’t that what everyone else is doing anyway?
Heavy hearts
Trying to go with the flow
In ways in which
Heavy hearts seldom float
Silent suffering.
Watching a bird take off
A reminder life carries on
And the radio plays
As if there isn’t silence beneath
Lipstick
Always on the wrong side of love
It’s been a while
Since you could take it all in
With your lipstick manufactured crimson smile
You can wipe away
The mistakes you kissed
Lipstick stains left on the ruins of us
A mistake we made
We no longer trust
And with your lipstick manufactured crimson smile
You erase
The way we loved
And with your lipstick manufactured smile
I’m the mistake
You wipe away
At the end of the night
You take your painted lips
Wrap them up in paper tulips
Forgetting the nights you let slip
The words on your tongue
That kissed
“Nothing to regret it’s just a kiss,
just a kiss”
“I was thinking of you
I promise this
I promise you this.”
No more frogs, no more prince
You said you want to rewild
Want to be free
And I told you
Freedom doesn’t exist
You’ll soon see
You’re chasing a myth
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