What if?

Infinity pauses

For a moment
To ponder
Which route

The universe
Stops

Diverges

Each moves on

Life
Indecisive
Plays all hands

4.30 am

Here in the dark before the dawn
The streets are filled with those who mourn
Warm softness of a welcome bed
A cosy place to lay our heads
We beggars all who silent pray
Hoping life will turn our way

The birds which after light will hide
Now cocophanous do cry
With their song I too will weep
For now is surely time to sleep
Not time to wend my lonely way
From empty bed to empty day.

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Laughing at our pain
Light up resident demons
Born of our own hands

Autumn flames

A space which reaches far and wide
Where mountains’ lofts
Touch dusty skies
Tall trees upon the soaring slopes
Breathe out an air
Of gentle hope
Where glowing leaves of autum fall
Drifting deep
Up to the porch
A silent evening ‘neath the sky
Where loving lips
Melt ‘fore the fire
There touch your skin beneath the moon
As starlight
Gentle curves illumes
The fire fades yet we remain
Limbs entwined
Become the same.

One day
You will
Stop looking

One day you will.
Stop looking!

One day you will stop looking.

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Where the emphasis sits in this does change it considerably.

Mace me

Surgically cut me open
Didn’t leave a stray clamp
But a spiked mace
Rolling around inside me
I can feel it some days
Rattling its chains

If she kisses
Like she smiles
The world might end
And I would never notice

Tomorrow coffee
With bleary eyes I find you
Enliven my day

Green tea and silence
These shall be my friends tonight
Tomorrow will come

Rainbows in the dark

I’m seeing rainbows
In the dark
Cast whisper’d light on me

For magic’s in
The smiles I fought
Appearing now with ease

Time I unlocked
This beating heart
And fin’ly set it free