(2013)
Not so long ago I was convinced you were the culprit, the masked robber of my sacred trust.
I came to bless you with the mystery, and shine my light on you. I did not know you could not risk the light,
Time wears away at me, like water on a stone, oh, so slowly, but inevitably, drop by drop,
I gaze down now upon the cracked and battered shell of the fearsome fiery dragon that once held me in her sway. It’s remarkable just how frail
Some time ago, I made my way down to the crossroads, to try my lucky hand at the devil’s gaming tables.
There’s a fearsome beast within, huddled tense and waiting, in the furthest corner of this brittle heart. It lies alert to any signal
trust the one who seeks the truth doubt the one who says he’s found…
I humbly bow before your tender me… for no other reason than I’m sorry… As I listen to my old pal, Leonar… crooning out his holy tunes, there’s a message sounding clear
You think you know me, that figment dancing in your mind’… You think you understand me, that puppet dangling from imaginar… You believe you know what’s best f…
Your end? My end? Where the hell’s the middle? You say this. I say that.
I’m not angry with you. I am hurting, and as usual, I don’t know why. I don’t know why I cry
God has spoken. I have been listening, the message is clear. The psalm itself is silent, if the psalmist’s voice falls stil…
Late at night; another helter-skelter day, having flown off unexpectedly into alien domains of disarray. So many urgent moments
Listen. There it is. The hum of perfect silence at the centre of all that is, and isn’t.
Clawing away. It’s dark here, chill and dank. Can’t stop now. Can’t stop ever.