Here, 'neath the roof we built ourselves… we lie: Woven together as tapestries are. Two separate bodies with two heart…

Out of the corner of my ear I catch The smallest of sounds. A barely-there, minute tremor. It found it’s way

Abuse may come in many forms. may be sugar coated sweet poison driven to drive your mind against you. Watch. The girl may laugh and tos…

You feel a fool, but I feel worse. Empathy’s an awful curse. You’re shocked and cold And I see why,

Somehow, I don’t know how, I’ve lost the effort to care about now and then

I played noughts and crosses in my… Stuck a Golden Compass in, Carved the shapes, a Nought, a Cr… To symbolise my greatest loss.

I ne’er cease to stare, amazed, (Under your enrapturing gaze) How we two bits of human-ness Found each other in this mess. Two binary stars, forever locked,

You realise by closing this door you close your own. And wave goodbye a future once known.

This virtuality that holds me, feeds me, Supplements my soul, With the nourishment it craves. Dreams that’d turn Kings to slave…

A gigaton of knowledge rests upon my loneliest friends breast. Her ribs, they crack I see them s… to hold the pressure, but keep the… There was one time, I saw her sna…

Like a stream of azure Your words run through my mind. So cool and swift and sharp and sw… And cruel, but not unkind. And the stream began to swell

Why do you drink so much? “Because I’m bored.” But no, you’re tired. You’re cold and old and oh so tired.

To sleep... Intoxication lends the weak– Does it not? And stops torrential thoughts wreaking havoc through

The words released to open air Take form to land on ears that car… And liberation of their weight Begins to heal the crippling hate. And healing starts to gather pace,

To you, I speak. Can you hear the strangled bleat? The soft and falling, faded, calli… Help me find my feet. I can’t stand on stumps alone.