Might

We rock in old chairs,
In time with the breeze.
Smiling as we watch,
Our children play in the trees.

That future is now faded,
And somehow has slipped away.
But I could never get,
Those good things to rhyme anyway.

Who Needs To Rhyme When You Can Recycle Free Verse

You were

Like the dandelion in my daydream
As boys do
I blew those seeds to the wind

They took root
In the Soil
and choked all the flowers

Now crying is like crunching dead leaves
And no amount of sunshine,
Will resuscitate you and me

Pass Myself

I passed myself
coming down stairs
straggled hair
dirty toy bear.

I passed myself
spiralling down
dirty, battered
Jaded old clown

I passed myself
Deep underground
Permanent frown
soles going brown

I passed myself
fleeing the light
relentlessly bright
The lunatic night

I asked myself
who do i see?
feeling me breathe
I scarcely believe

The Night is Young

I can smell your broken bones
Stretched out on those street stones

Crawling home across the cement
I cross your path, like I was heaven sent

You turn, as though you wish to flop away
But we both know, that you are longing to stay

So please, don’t play so hard to get
The night as young, and the dinner table is set

I’m a gracious host, so let us dine a for while
Lets chew the fat, and laugh with a sticky smile

Oh, Is someone at the door, trying to keep the wolves at bay?
Ah, but it was only a whisper, not enough to save the day

So let’s take out time with it, as we lick and chew
Savour every morsel, as though taste were new

Oh no, my friend, don’t get up to go quiet yet
The night is young, and I have quiet the appetite to whet.

So please, do me the honour of taking your seat
It’s time I break out the knives, and carve up this meat.

Never Die

Take what you believe and try and leave it all behind
The things you think you know become irrelevent in time
chase away the shame of all the games you know you played
Someone always loves you, no matter what you say

If all we do is die
And souls are just a lie
We still exist inside another mind
We never die

You don't know where you're going or where you're meant to be
Until you feel the pressure for a fresher pair of knees
Racing at a pace where you can taste the years go by
Inflated from the weight of all the tears you never cried

If all we do is die
and souls are just a lie
We still exist inside another mind
We never die

So cast away your fears and hear me calling out to you
This is not a lie i say, i want to be with you
and watch the world get older from your shoulder by the sea

We'll spend our first eternity
in someone elses memory
We're gonna see the other side

We never die

A Friend of Mine

There’s a little lovely light
That shines out there
Closing those bright eyes
As it struggles for air

It’s glowing silently
Out with the trees
Following voices
That say as they please

Those flies circle round
Smelling their feed
Knives out and ready
To consume a friend in need

Let them sing to you
Each kiss draws some blood
Smiles are their anchors
To hook you down in the mud

They can't help but entertain
And you get infatuated
That you’d be a little more brilliant
If you’re lovely light now faded

There is no company
For we’ve both lost our way
So back to the muck
The flies have won the day

The moon’s now high
We’re all alone in the dark
And our lovely little light
Just turned to a lifeless spark

Drought

Dry Spell
Relationship hell
Burnt carcass smells

No rain
Reflects the pain
Baggage still remains

Hang on
To ticking bomb
Many years too long

Words small
I speak them all
Rain starts to fall

Sky cries
The fuse dies
End of all the lies

Eyes to Watch

Nothing has been posted on here for a while so I thought I'd throw something on. I wrote this about my hometown as I was coming back from BC. I forget what the title is all about!

Rolling parking lots,
That glow out to eat the night
Sprawling across horizons
Until concrete digests sight

Teeth gnashing on
The bones of rolling green
With its remains vomited out
Only brown left to be seen

The skies are empty
Painting grey on what churns below
A one way mirror
For that cement and glass hell’s glow

Right angles and suits
Flutter by in perpendicular rhythm
Wearing masks for eyes
And drowning by indecision

System and routine
Hold still our gangrenous oasis
But not even these steel bars
Can secure our vacant spaces

The City is empty
No one will sleep tonight