a pack mule called regret
Its a poem about looking back at the path a relationship has taken from start to finish. All those things you could of do differently; hindsight is a terrible thing, it turns you into a fully laden pack mule.
(2014)
there’s an eerie feel to its stare a dull eyed stare peeling me to th… as if cautioning me, berating me hammering down my disgrace he sits there marble eyed
I looked up from my phone eyes bleary and adjusting, was it you coming towards me a vision of blue; a dolphin swimmi… dressed in a nurses attire
you weave despair like a fine thre… you’re a tailor with skills unknow… and it seems my ego is your thimbl… my back is also your pin cushions… I feel i’m treated like a commodit…
some people need to be wanted while others want to be needed most of the time signs are read other times they go unheeded count their pain on your fingers
Nurse my broken wings back to life They don’t work the way they shoul… For I’ve flown too close to the m… And scanned all the heavens above I’ve journeyed beyond existence
I’m here to melt your tears to soothe your mind to show I care come rest with me
the sound of this land lays empty a dormant glaze pours through its… this opulent terrains bounty of pl… now shudders numb as birds recede the graveyards full of the living
Black and white hide thoughts of g… Lay sleepless under blankets thin Dreams are nightmares growing long Pieced together the seam still pin… Shapeless forms as dark turns fadi…
What grips the air and the fabric… Slithers and twists its way from l… Its beacon crass and cursing bland Steady and static, faceless and st… Its course meandering its faith cu…
how can I make you see that you are still the one, and that your name is still proudl… on the frosty pane of my windowed… how can I make you see
My eyes hurt from vision stale As thoughts consume of angry tales Of how dust was blown from a brida… And colours danced on finger nails Me, I don’t have much to add
the world and all its trappings that you drape around your gold, the lace and frills you wear all tell a tale, they speak of disappointment
before dead eyes i saw you in my room – dark and dim – cold, you were a fuzzy frail outline around an old photo frame, you stood perplexed– frozen
you lived out your gangster fantas… through association rather than ab… you mingled with the bigger fish and your small crew grew and thriv… making money hand over fist
a rattling door handle from over t… rouses me from a nightmares grip o… that poor woman is at it again her ocd, her magic number must be… oh, here she goes again