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The Risks We Take With Friends
Peewee, who fancies himself kind,
Calls friendship the sharpest snare you'll find.
A philanthropist, he claims the cost
Of open trust is often lost.
“Loving’s a risk,” Peewee begins,
“No one wounds deeper than one you let in.
To give your heart is danger stark;
Few repay your light for their dark.”
For in the end, he’d come to learn,
That kindness, unreturned, ...
Sunday 27th October 2024 4:08 pm
Don't fall for someone
Don't fall for someone..
You will always break,
Don't fall for someone..
For yourself not to hate,
Don't fall for someone..
For your own sake
Love is beautiful if you are lucky,
But almost always it ends in misery.
Finding love and living happily is what you always see in movies,
But reality is not like the big screens.
Seeing the bright side, it's like butterflies,
But only after hea...
Saturday 20th August 2022 6:49 pm
Recharge
27.06.20
Days spent doing nothing
Are not a waste at all
Time to replensh
And let sparkle restore
Charge your phone
Charge your batteries
Why not yourself?
So wrapped in productivity
You forget to charge yourself
Monday 17th May 2021 10:05 am
Scars and Bruises
You always see
when people trip and fall
face first onto a knee,
The shear panic of a red warm pool.
People crowd and care,
Rushing to rescue.
Drip, drip, drip,
The skin now stained
seeping from veins,
Pumping like a bad memory,
Fixated on the blood
people forget the scars,
Not the one oozing with puss
but the one deep-rooted,
Crying out for atte...
Wednesday 13th May 2020 10:17 pm
Milestones
Lying here comforting my daughter of 9 months beside me, it suddenly occured to me that when she was born I was going to write more, start to share my work, use my time out of work to explore my poetry writing too. You know, all the usual gubbins, before the actual reality of having a newborn who doesn't sleep, has painful reflux and an older, teenage sister or whichever equivalents consume you.
...Tuesday 30th May 2017 5:26 am
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