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Whited Sepulchres
Flag-shaggers claim The Silence is their own:
one such, in ignorance, presumed my guilt,
and sneered: “he is alone”, but knew not why;
“He’s running free”, sez he, “why’s that allowed?”
I say to him: “Mate, you know bugger-all:
five comrades, blown to bits of blood and bone,
must keep their silence now, that of the grave;
the silence that I keep has been dear bought,
...
Thursday 14th November 2024 12:25 pm
Did I hit my head or have a fall?
Did I hit my head or have a fall?
Did my heart give out?
Am I under the stars?
Did I make it to heaven?
The memories I have are as strong as an over perked cup of coffee
I can’t forget or let them go
In fear that I’ll feel I’ll have never lived those moments to remember
I try to recreate those memories
I try to relive every moment
But each time I do
I realize it’s not...
Tuesday 18th June 2024 2:19 am
Episode
My life force has gone
whatever confidence I had is crushed
I cannot hear my voice
I cannot hear any voice
except panic
and anger
I am lost in a street walking the wrong way
shoulders bumped and jarred
I move to the wall
I press hard against it
It pushes me into the flow
my fear turns to violence
There is no reason to lash out
no reason to h...
Wednesday 5th June 2024 1:55 pm
Post Traumatic Civilian
There's no stars out in this darkened sky.
As a curl up, on the hard floor to lie
I cannot lay safe, cozied on this soft bed.
Not with the noises and memories floating in my damn head.
The cracks and the bangs that rang out in the night.
Times I saw many men fall, disappear out of sight.
Was that today, yesterday, or maybe tomorrow?
No bravery left here there's only raw sorrow.
The noise...
Tuesday 30th April 2024 5:26 pm
Acknowledge me
It reaches further than "please fuck me" or "don’t touch me"
It’s a liminal in-between
A line we like to call blurry
But I never asked you to undress me
My body abandoned me
My words went slurry
Tongue too thick to go beyond a mumble
Kind sir escorted me to save me from stumble
Four times play on my mind
One of them I even forgot
Until it accosted me during a usual d...
Friday 12th January 2024 5:07 pm
There were fireworks tonight
There were fireworks tonight
And each time there was a spark
It reminded me of your heartbeat
You're still lighting up my life everyday
Every breath I take is harder than the previous
My life is so incomplete without you
It feels like I'm breathing underwater
Where oxygen is scarce until you come back up
I would do anything to have you here with me
Life seems to be getting harder as ...
Tuesday 8th August 2023 4:54 pm
The Faint
The Faint
“We need you back bladerunner,
we need the old magic back” the commissioner pleads heartily,
but my sleep state confusion knows only the tears that foretold,
‘Big boys don’t cry!’
In state of anguish every beating is felt one more time,
and, ‘it must be a life review’ and, I hear them say,
“He’ll not recover from this one!” - it is as if...
Sunday 8th May 2022 6:50 pm
Rose-Tinted Vision
And in the beginning, I remember how your hand,
Had reached out to help me,
As you promised me that you would love me,
That you would care for me.
And those promises were not the only things broken,
When you used that same hand to hold me down, to use me, to hurt me;
And bruise my vunerability that I had given to you.
And you left my skin in a state that made my mum sob;
An...
Wednesday 30th March 2022 8:18 am
I'm cursed.
I'm cursed.
Imprisoned inside my own head.
Endless loops of excessive or inadequate.
The overwhelming depth of darkness poisons me;
And I'm consumed by voices that scream for release;
the intoxicating craving for peace.
Until I overdose on overthinking,
Yet so tortured by this terrifying emptiness,
That I am just too numb to fear that fear.
I am simply a shell of a girl ...
Tuesday 29th March 2022 5:19 pm
Hang in there or Hang Yourself
I'm defenceless, powerless.
Constrained, by uncontrolled emotions,
To this rollercoaster: up, down, up, down.
Desperate screams silenced in smothering shame.
I didn't consent to this ride,
So why won't you let me get off?
Sadness is suicide;
Anger is murder,
Happiness is euphoric,
And normal? Normal is northing.
And nothing being an insufferable emptiness,
That hol...
Tuesday 29th March 2022 5:16 pm
One Year, Daddy
My dearest Daddy,
It's already been an entire year since the Angels up above wrapped you in their wings and reserved a first class ticket to have God himself share your life story with everyone and have you reunite with your parents. It feels like you were just here yesterday...but that was so many yesterdays ago...
I am devastated
I am in disbelief
I am broken
I am scarred for life
Si...
Thursday 6th January 2022 2:44 pm
The soldier poem
Im am a solder that never fought but battle in my life.
I am a man with no fear but fear is my nature .
Im a man that strong though strength of heart.
I am a man that seen war that will tear apart thing in it path.
Im a man that taught strength is in control of emotion.
I am a man that was taught wisdom but never listened.
I a man that rather face my battle on my shoulder t...
Saturday 17th July 2021 5:29 am
LIFELONG PANDEMIC ⚠️
Lockdown silence
No sirens less police
Less street violence
Growing Nature clear sky's less pollution
One year later vaccine..Solution
And we're back again noises are louder
Pubs are open Alcohol white powder
Fights with knives,battered citizens not just wives
Schools back ..crowded street
Complaining teachers email repeat
Back to normal yeah...
Friday 23rd April 2021 2:13 pm
Travelling Together
We've been underground now,
We've been travelling tunnels rarely trod.
We've been with our torches and beacons
And our memories of light.
But it is getting darker
The further that we get.
Will you go on with me, into the depths?
Will you keep company with me,
Until there's nothing left to light our way?
Till we've found all we can find, said all we can say.
But you don't need to ans...
Thursday 28th January 2021 1:33 am
ptsd
Irony is a malicious art-form. It’s shocking and sneaky and dripping with deceit.
Is it a karmic curse? Do I deserve to be toyed with like a worn out voodoo doll?
Did I ask for this? All the years of not caring at all.
Putting myself in harms way begging to be struck.
Dancing around the fire drunk with a lust for self-sabotage.
And escaping fate every single time.
It seems like a bad-jok...
Wednesday 7th October 2020 7:33 pm
FATE
The greatest things in life cannot be seen,
Like happiness, love and serenity,
Anger, malice, wrath and rage,
I'm sick of these feelings as I grow with age,
There's more to life than being locked up,
Slamming dope and running amuck,
Looking over my shoulders the paranoia doesn't stop,
The fun is all gone and the streets are too hot,
Life on the run has turn into a drag,
...
Wednesday 24th June 2020 11:09 am
Touchstone
You ask if I'm okay,
because I am
unusually quiet
today.
I'm just trying to keep memories
behind the flood gates
so they don't sweep me away
to a dark place.
Thank you for being my escape,
a bright light,
my way home,
my touchstone.
Your love helps ease the pain.
I don't mean to push you away.
There are so many things I want to say,
but I must go, feed Jake.
https://y...
Saturday 9th November 2019 1:45 pm
Wolf
Get out
Go away,
I've been working hard
For too many days.
Can't think
Won't sleep,
Not with you there
Herding all my sheep.
Get out
Go away,
My head's so full
And heavy with clay.
Can't think
Won't sleep,
Afraid of monsters
That are sure to creep.
Get out
Go away,
I never said
That you could stay.
Can't think
Won't sleep,
Could end it all
With just... one... leap....
Wednesday 9th October 2019 7:58 pm
Manipulation
Touch me
Burn me
Hurt me
Break me
Ache me
Caress me
Kiss me
Cuddle me
Feel me
Hit me
Rub me
Taste me
Grope me
...kill me
Backdated 10/8/19
Wednesday 9th October 2019 7:56 pm
Illusion
I am yours,
Or so it seems.
I give my all,
My everything.
Every night,
You continue to take.
My silent screams,
"I'll break! I'll break!"
But still, you chase,
Still you win.
And once again,
I’ll give in.
I give my all,
My everything.
Because I am yours,
Or so it seems.
Backdated 10/8/19
Wednesday 9th October 2019 7:55 pm
Passion
Come in
Slide behind
Start our rhythm
Get on your grind
Forget my feelings
I'm losing my mind
Don't need real life
To you I'm blind
Can feel every ache
Wish I could rewind
Know I'll always be hurt
To you, I am confined
Just waiting for the day
To be reassigned
Backdated 10/7/19
Wednesday 9th October 2019 7:54 pm
Onus (TRIGGER WARNING)
I know what's coming,
I want to run away.
Maybe a deeper desire,
Always makes me stay.
He slips in behind me
Cuddles and watches TV.
Then he touches me and moves me,
And never once with a plea.
His rhythm begins,
One leg bracing me in.
Leaving his hand down my pants
Grabbing at my skin.
With fury and anger
His force comes to an abrupt halt.
Unsatisfied and unloved,
I'm left sh...
Wednesday 9th October 2019 7:45 pm
New Sheets (TRIGGER WARNING)
The lights dim and a curtain's drawn,
A quiet theater as the show begins.
It's the same reel playing on repeat,
A shattered heartbroken from sin.
He lies next to her as he'd always done,
Reliving his day through adventurous stories.
But something about him had changed that night,
The girl became something he had to seize.
A kiss of the lips catches her off guard,
"I'm sorry" escapes f...
Wednesday 9th October 2019 5:50 pm
The demons that only I knew
Would you believe me
If I told you the truth
Would you stay with me,
Or would you just leave?
Would you still feel
The way that you do
If you saw me kneel
Before the demons so cruel?
I tried to escape
But it fell right through
It was never fate
What should I do?
I didn't mean to fail
I did choose you
But the monsters fight
Harder than I'm able to
I...
Thursday 26th July 2018 10:34 pm
Can't Escape
You try to escape the demons
But they latch on way too tight,
Their claws digging into my body
And mind, with all their might.
Fighting is exhausting,
It physically and mentally drains.
But still I endure it, hoping
One day I will finally escape the pain.
Tuesday 19th June 2018 10:05 pm
Ricochet
Shells fly overhead,
dust kicking up in the air
filling the lungs,
and choking the life
from the blank eyes.
Staring up wide eyed and teary
as the life slips away,
Laying there bare to the bone
stripped of the soul
lost to the sea of dust and rubble
laying underfoot of the building
...
Saturday 3rd February 2018 12:58 am
Flash Backs `N` Nightmares
{Flash Backs `N` Nightmares}
The bad flash backs `n` nightmares haunt's my life `n` mind `n` memory today it washes over my whole body almost crippling it like the first time it occurred it's purely agony on my poor old soul that I wish would disappear from me because it's a wrecking ball to my life today
`N` I can still see the flash backs `n` nightmares of the bu...
Friday 8th December 2017 6:56 pm
My Muse Is Dead
Beige walls stand empty where original artworks once hung
A woman, beyond her years in mind and body, sits at her desk
Staring at a screen that, despite vast knowledge at her fingertips
Is empty
The cloud of cognizance that enveloped her has cleared
Ridiculed by those she trusted
"Over medicated"
No more pills
No more gange
Nothing to help control the demons within her mind
There is no f...
Tuesday 28th November 2017 10:23 pm
Live On - Awake Till Death
Live On – Awake Till Death
Aye Aye Aye
Aye Aye
So what are you dreaming,
What visions are keeping you entertained night, and day??
Loved ones, hated ones - winning ones - losing ones.
What’s on your mind?
That’s what ‘they’ want to know!
That’s the secret see, keeping it to yourself,
Keeping it all to yourself,
Your dreams, your fantasy’s, no matte...
Thursday 5th May 2016 11:25 pm
THE SPOILS OF WAR
And the troops go marching proudly by
as she wipes a tear from her weary eyes,
the one that she seeks, she will never again hold
for he died at his post; he was thirty years old.
The colours fly high on a cool autumn breeze
as man and boy march with well practiced ease,
so glad to be home after being so brave,
with flags overhead and not covering their graves.
She...
Monday 24th August 2015 11:59 pm
Craiglockhart (Not Yet Diagnosed Nervous)
Craiglockhart (Not Yet Diagnosed Nervous)
When I kicked over the wheelchair
I couldn’t do the simplest task,
except the epileptic flailing
of my military antimasque.
Turning on the hissing gas-lamp
had me reaching for the mask.
You opened up my mind
and you didn’t even ask.
Sh-sh-sh shut the fuck up,
I think I’m going insane,
I’ve got all these bombs
going off in my brain.
I’m lik...
Wednesday 2nd July 2014 3:17 pm
The Earths Core
The Earths Core
I am sat in front of its secret eye,
And I wanna kick fuck out of it,
It watches everything I do,
I pick my nose in front of it,
Wack off,
Swear,
Drink
Bite my nails
And pick my scabby scalp,
It looks at me with pleasure,
For it seeks only the demeaning
Of my being,
And I find nowadays
My dick is cold,
My mind colder still,
...
Saturday 22nd March 2014 9:35 pm
The Borrow
The Borrow
‘Oh how the mighty have fallen’
They say,
Referencing the frail, the fat, the fucked,
And,
You couldn’t wait to bring them down,
Watching till they’re frail, they’re fat, they’re fucked
Yet,
You never really knew,
Never knew the sacrifice they made
Still,
You’re envious,
Laughing with scorn labe...
Saturday 13th July 2013 3:48 am
THE RADIO TELEGRAPHIST
THE RADIO TELEGRAPHIST
It doesn’t come easy,
Being a Radio Telegraphist –
For the MOD,
And when you’re done,
When you have finally
Had it all drummed in,
Your ears are opened
In ways a civilian just
Wouldn’t understand,
You’re sat there
In the back of a soft-top
Or a four three two
Or you’re out on patrol,
But yo...
Friday 21st June 2013 10:22 pm
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