Tag: Love
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The hidden secret word
I like you more than you like me unless… you are once again – so perfectly – correcting me.
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Strength from your arm
Tiptoeing at first, dancing freely heart touched along the path to set myself free.
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Next Valentine’s Day
It’s been weeks now – glimmers of hope surround me, padding slowly, silently around him – starting to erase the usual doubts, choosing tones dulcet around him -leading up to Valentine’s Day.Meantime each day closer now -the air presses upon me -humidity enveloping around me -softer my voice slower now – sifted words more gently…
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To the grief keepers and compassionistas
All around us the beauty that was is being leeched and swept away. Our poets are shot, nurses murdered, children kidnapped, all around us their night extends into day.
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Sins of empathy: an inventory
Helping refugees in fear cross the frontier….Committing the ultimate sin of empathy.
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Afterwards always ever afterwards
Afterwards I would like to be known as the first light shining through your eyes as you knew me. And afterwards as the reflection that, shone your true light reflected back to you.
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No commas no full stops
No commas, no full stops… Let our spaces be stepping stones. Let there be breathless semicolons whilst wandering questions and floundering ellipses lead us one to the other…
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i know vulnerable now
This time I won’t hide as I did before behind an open door. I will leave this room unlocked and inviting.
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the heart is found in stillness
I sought you high amongst the skiesUntil the clouds interposed upon me,Their unwanted sadness, grey and cold.I sought you deep amidst the waves,Until their depths closed over me,Their unwanted sadness, blue and old.Now I stand myself still, lost now, waiting,Biding my time and guarding my hope,That within my heart’s stillness, aeons afterward, I will heal…
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the knowing
Maybe you’re afraid I’ll find you out, completely, It may be I’ll reject you totally, and whisper walk away.Or more fearfully perhaps, that I’ll choose to stay,And analyse all I’ve found about you – scientifically…as flaw found by flaw ground I start the dismantling, Shattering you into fright sized fragments,scattering those now unencumbered segments,as dust…
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All I could have
i was the hopeful,You were the hoped for.Mine was the heartful,And you were the hurt full.Intrinsically.Now I watch you meander away,from me. To another ocean, another sea.And though I still am that river,Renewed before your eyes: a well spring:Albeit frozen then fed by a glacial source, I still feel my heart flow away from all…
