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The Apartment
Shattered glass now frames
the family portrait
All that is broken
I’ll sweep into the past
I’ve been in hiding, too long
it’s time to strike out on my own again
I rented an attic room
high above this sprawling city
and it’s from here
I’ll begin again…
The slamming door, definitive
as my tears kissed the snowy ground
I wandered shoeless into the vacant night
It’s time to bury that he...
Wednesday 4th June 2025 3:10 pm
Shedding Skin
Been living with trouble in mind
trouble of mind, troubling life
with trouble pulled inside
Spent a decade in the shade
spent a decade dealing in shame
a decade; feeling a certain kind of hate
Crawled out into the light
staggered through that blinding light
still I busied myself
with needless slivers of selfish night
Do you want to start again
do you want to make that change
wel...
Monday 9th September 2019 9:36 am
Dawn
Dawn is naked and alive
pirouetting in the street outside
she is a broad grey sky, endless above
It's not rain...
just some foggy spray licking windows
a coat the building wears
a metaphor I cannot interpret
all irony is groggily lost on me
yawning with my whole body
struggling with the load of memory
I'm oiling daily
So maybe I should stay indoors
get the fire going, boil the kett...
Thursday 22nd October 2015 11:27 pm
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