I will send flowers
or a plane
if that’s what it takes
just come home
for another minute

Why do you speak
in capitals
and love in lower case?

I cannot reach out
There is no reach left
I cannot cry out
There is no cry left
I cannot crawl away
There is no crawl left
I cannot win now
There is no win left

Come on ‘ he said
Christ’ I thought
if only…………..
sadly
I have no ‘come on’s ‘
left

Driving
three bundles of love
to nowhere specific
but loving
the journey

I am buried
deep
beneath an emotion
that does not have my name
on it.

Do you see?
Don’t stare
Just glance
Do you see?
A better version of you and me
And humanity
Do you see
Don’t stare
Stand back
Wish
And glance
Breath in
Let’s take this chance

I don’t
remember a time
I was me
without you

I will not drop our love
I may not love our love
tonight
or want our love
tonight
or seek our love
tonight
or need our love
tonight
or know our love
tonight
or like our love
tonight
but still
I will not drop our love

I will not
not because I cannot
but simply because I will not
anymore
rage
for the single cause of rage
it is not worthy
anymore.

He is grown now
handsome and proud
I am old now
bewildered and cowed
but…

You’re trouble
this much I knew
from the moment
you stood there
boldly
and
answered
right back

You teach me things
I didn’t know
I needed to know

I will take my expensive wine
if you don’t mind
and my conversation
jump in a taxi
short trip
to someone
more kind.

Thank you
for
getting the point of me
and still loving me
when
I struggle
to get the point
of us

I see you
maybe
for the first time
and the seeing
hurts my eyes.

if it all fell apart tomorrow
and why wouldn’t it
I would still applaud  the
fact
that we tried

After this long time
we’ve seen it all
round of applause
for us
just can’t help thinking
shame
we didn’t see it the same way

There are seven
wonders of the world
and three of them
are sitting here
right here
right now
at home
with me.

You burn me
not so much that anyone can see the
scorch
on my palm
my hand
my face
my soul
pain that leaves no mark
is a true artist’s
greatest work

We are deep
into
another bottle of
conversation.

Do you remember we swapped toys
when we were five
Do you remember we swapped promises
when we were ten
Do you remember we swapped kisses
at fifteen
Do you remember we swapped dreams
when we were twenty
Do you remember we swapped tears
at twenty five
Do you remember we swapped lovers
when we were thirty
Do you remember we swapped lives
at thirty five
Do you remember we swapped lies
at forty
Do you remember we swapped partners
at forty five
Do you remember we swapped kids
at fifty
Do you remember we swapped dreams
at fifty five
Do you remember you swapped life
when you were sixty .

If we are going to write
let’s write clever
otherwise
it’s a useless
endeavour

Here’s the thing
the missing
never leaves
we just learn
that love
is just as real
from afar.

You and me
are just a tale of
a heart
defining chance

Don’t leave me to stand all alone
I fear I will bend over
and break an important bone

You wash over me
with your wisdom
you silence me
with your voice
you know me
with your love

my voice is a burden
you don’t need
my words a worry
you don’t need
my serious about serious
you don’t need
my noisiness about noise
you don’t need
my simpleness about simple
you don’t need
my pureness about pure
you don’t need
my world upon yours
you really  really
don’t need
my version of love
you honestly don't need.

Someone like you
was never meant for
someone like me
it was always meant to be
a casual affair

God, your words are lovely
they fall about me like confetti
they are a celebration
a happy song
I am the bride
dressed in white
a celebration
your words are lovely
yet empty
celebrate your words
they are empty
like a bride lost
in confetti

Let me be the youngest
and say
somehow
we went astray
but there is no rulebook
that says
we have to stay
this  way.

There is nothing much worth
saving here
you say
except perhaps our child
I say

These are little pieces
in the real world
fragments that
have become undone
if you reach to touch them
they will disappear
like smoke upon touch
the little pieces
that today
seem so much

Here’s a poem about nothing
because nothing says more
than the rest of us could ever say
if we tried all day tomorrow
and the rest of today

It’s complicated
and I am too
there was a map here
yesterday
lost it
somehow
somewhere
Can’t find it
anywhere
Can you?

When everyone said
dust yourself down
get up
wake up
don’t wear a frown
you said
take my hand
lay down
tomorrow
you’ll own this town

I see you
although
I desperately
look
the other way

Today surprised  me
I wasn’t
expecting
the sun!

You want me to understand that
you have wasted your life
believing
what your mother said
she believed what she said
she had no choice
but she never wanted you
to believe it too.

Your love hit me
like a bullet in the dark
it came from nowhere
but it’s surely left its mark

‘Read this’ I said
it’s so good
I don’t have time for poetry, Mum’
she said
I choose to dance instead.’

When did we become a
love song
that no one sings
anymore

I could talk
all night
yet still
barely
erase
my lie

You make me laugh
when I’don’t want to laugh
you make me cry
when I don’t want to cry
you make me listen
when I don’t want to hear
you make it clear
when you’re not even here
you make it right
in the dead of the night

This is so much better
Than I expected
and you
God,
so much more than
I deserve
even for me

the girl is not not in love
she is just not  totally
in love in love
either.

you are halfway
into my heart
well done
it’s more than anyone
ever
has ever managed to do
and it’s a feeling
I could get used to
maybe !

You said
you would love me anyway
I know your way
and I know my way
And I know
we are not destined to be
each other’s
anyway.

I’ve got a ride to
somewhere
probably end up being
nowhere
still I’ve got a ride to
somewhere
could talk the driver into
one more passenger?

They are grown men now
I watch over  them from afar
they have their wives and rings
and slings
and other things
that bind them
and make them sing
sometimes I want to scoop them up
one in each arm
like long ago
throw them in the back of my car
and sing out loud
ridiculous
melodies
laugh out loud
to
lyrics
born
inside my car.