I try to hold onto my hopes, dreams and desires. As the days grow shorter, and the nights longer, I find that sliver of hope that kept me going start to fade. I clutch my blanket around me tighter, ignoring the clock that says I must leave my bed. I ignor...
I can feel it on my skin, the tantalizing, life-giving heat from the sun above me. My skin dries, burns, blisters, reflecting my mind much more than seldom-spoken words or actions could ever hope to achieve. I watch the red peel, revealing darkened skin b...
The choices that we makeWe cannot mask or fakeSome right some wrongIt is life’s same old songThe test of who we areIf we have gone near or farDo we stay on this pathOr suffer a fool’s new wrathAlways another one to makeAnother chance for us to takeWe neve...
Scatter me on the wind Let me drift away Across a world gone mad Let me disappear into the void Float across space Let me burn up in the sun Immolate me in fire And let me be reborn As something new Something innocent Take away the pain That shrouds my he...
What a pleasure it is to watch the sky.Keeping track of clouds passing by. Seeing pictures appear in the shapes.Now and then there are landscapes. Bears, faces, fish, flowers and more.Too many to count, score upon score. Constantly changing before one's e...
Sitting out on my porch I watch the world wake up. First the birds, calling out to their neighbours and family with happy, cheerful greetings. Then it's the moist drops of dew, glistening in the growing rays of sun that begin to peek over the tall snow-ca...
‘Look at us, Sherlock. Look at what we have become.’ She nagged as I punished another swig from a bottle of gin firmly in my grasp. Here in yet another temporary Safe-house – I’ve lost count over the year – I stare out through a night filled window, a pla...
I remember the days when colouring inside the lines was the hardest part of school life, then when it was spelling the simplest word right and everything lies in these tiny little letters. When everything was so simple but seemed so complex. you could be...
"Me?" I asked my sister. "Why do I have to do it?""I think he'll listen to you.""When has he ever listened to me?" I asked her. "And what about Mum?""Mum's too upset, she can't think straight.""Oh, OK. I'll have a go but I can't promise anything.""I know,...
All this time I failed to see, There is no place for a man like me; My hopes and dreams will never be, A shadowman is my destiny. My late night thoughts are sad but true, What made me think I had a chance with you; You deserved much better than this man y...
Life, she laughs at me, especially tonight as I sit at my computer. The machine is a heap of shit. The keys are sticky with age; the keyboard is stained and the space button is missing. Instead of a large friendly space bar, all I have is a small plastic...
21/06/2011 – London“What do you mean you QUIT your job?” Julia shouted at me. My sister was trying to mother me. However it was hard to take the ‘mom’ routine seriously when she was only two years older than me. This reversal in our sibling dynamic was ha...
The Grass Withers "The grass withers and the flower fades..." And we know that this is so To grasp this truth is a lesson learned But the learning is so slow The things we cherish change with time And there's nothing we can do We cannot turn the clock bac...
The Road is uncertain ahead, but I have no fear. Moonlight guided my every step, setting the dark cobblestones aglow. I move forward and the doubt from my soul eases.For far too long now, I shielded myself from the worldStemming from the insecurity that,...
