Knowing when to jump
Before water gets too hot
Lulled by deadly warmth

—

Reading this again, felt inspired. Thank you John.

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Today, tomorrow…

She wasnt there again today
Tomorrow she’ll have gone away
And on the days thereafter too
I wonder if she knows the truth
That every day she is not there
I look and quietly despair
But better that than say hello
For then she’d surely turn and go.

Looming tomorrow
Important project deadlines
So I brush the cat

Hiding in silence
Wreathed in shadows obscuring
Fearful of my light

Learning to love

So young we were when first we kissed
That momentary passing bliss
Which caught our hearts not unawares
But left them beating rapturous snares
Entwined by youthful folly we
So blinded that we could not see
There underneath the vows we spoke
Our kisses had brought forth a yoke
Which fractured as you sought to flee
And left us burdened far from free
For all we shared entwined our souls
No longer are we feeling whole
Thus now it is we seek to learn
Those lessons which in youth we spurned
How to live alone at last
Making peace with all that’s past.

Sing of smiles

When you look at me
And smile
A part of me
Starts singing
I don’t yet know
The words
But the sound
Is softly thrilling

I beg love yourself
With all of your heart and soul
As you couldn’t me

2am

Voices
Speaking
Crawling
Bedward
Making
Themselves
Content
Finding
Spaces
Emptied

Where
There
Were
Two
Now
Is
Just
One

Voices
Creeping
Sneaking
Into
Dreaming
Leaving
Restless
Always
Laughing
Sneering

Keep
Them
With
Me
To
Fill
The
Void

Voices
Finding
Empty
Without
Safety
Shelter
Under
Covers
Listen
Weeping

I had nothing left
For all I was departed
So I learned to live

Never forgetting
There is now only chaos
Where you once found peace