Fade away We all fade away We suffer In silence And the world likes it that way

The words on the pages blur Fading away in a mist A mist of tears, floods In a waterfall, Like so many drops of blood

There lies a wooden cabin Just big enough for one With a garden full of every colour… Growing softly, surely in the dark… With a pond to one side

Shadows all around Smothering the ground Scraping along the walls Of my mind A thing of darkness

Great eagles soar Over canyons high Omnipotent eyes searching for Doorways to another Blooming sunburst

When you’re too tired to feel Too numb to care When there’s no one there To hold you close The Darkness obliges

I don’t belong here Destined for another place So lonely It crushes me Falling through a black abyss

There is a beautiful glade Covered in white roses Shimmering in the sunlight Ranks of tall trees with golden le… Surround the glade

Thoughts collapse Mind full of gaps Can’t escape Pain takes shape Cuts on a wrist

Writing poetry at 4 am Is not as romantic as the poets sa… It is not with love I write Or hatred It is neither

I am drowning In fire And burning In water. The fire embraces me in a cold whi…

He is lost Alone Is he dead? Is he alive? Trembling hands

The smile hides the tears The laugh conceals the pain The jokes save them from his suffe… “I’m fine” he says “I’m okay” he says