I opened my front door, stepping out of the dusky apartment block hallway into my lounge room, and saw the answering machine flashing wildly. Ten messages. I felt a moment of dread as I wondered how many of the messages were from her. I pressed play... "J...
FORGIVENESSWHAT A PARADOXICAL WORD. Vast, yet simple. Hugely unimaginable to give to someone in some situations, yet so easy to bestow in others. And is it right to say; I can forgive you, but not them? Can we indeed CHOOSE forgiveness, or must it just co...
There wasn't a day that went by where Lily didn't think about the baby. Blonde hair that fell in wisps around her delicate elfin face. The way the sun had lit her from behind so that she appeared as if surrounded by a halo of light. Her smile, pulling at...
Now I'm a pacifist you seePeace and love and mungbeans for meBut on the night you came to stayThings shifted...I left the room with dinner in handA relaxing evening I had plannedBut returning to the kitchenI grew livid.As bold as brass you munched awayOn...
GUILTYour insane guilt is driving me insanedraining me drysucking my life force out of my shattered bodyTugging at mePulling on meDemanding of me to give, give, giveEven when I'm finally left lying, curled and shriveled, on the floor,It would STILLnot be,...
WAS THERE LIGHT?It wasn't that you were mistakenThat you imagined itIt's just that she has given in to her darknessAnd has doused her own Light
THIS OLD WOMANThis woman has grown bitter and twistedlike an old knarled treethat sits atop a barren, rocky outcropthat looks out over the sea.Buffeted by winds and salty airstripped bareof life.Stubborn and resolute.Holding on till death to be rightto wi...
In the night time he would come aroundand lay his cool hands on my warm forehead.In the night time he would come aroundand lay his warm hands on my cool Heart.In the night time he would come aroundand surround me with his rainbow lightIn the night time he...
I can't let myself think about him. The sun is shining down on my pale back for the first time in days. A black butterfly with white spots is dancing around in the light breeze delighting in the day and inviting me to join in. But he comes to me unbidden....
