I am just a body
I am just a mind
I’m a collection of skin and bones
And beneath the sky I find
The heat is on both sides
The sun on my front
The sands heat on my hind
Now I know why animals bask
The speed of life these days
Has took as all to task
We have forgotten how to relax
We have grown fins and attacked
I hear grass whisper
Waves collapse
Such the simple and the soothing
Away from all this industry
This dimple is for prooving
Im still a child at heart
I must escape this industry I have become
This factory over run by mechanical thoughts
Of getting things achieved, getting done
I should just lay outstretched forever
Under sea and star and sun
Let this healing cycle repeat
As though nature was my Mum
My body has made a mould into the sand

a personal masseuse

this is the liquid of me

cutting the noose, the enamalled tooth that shines and bites too hard
the crashing wave are the breath
And every hour leaves one less ounce of anguish
As it all drains away through my back
Looking up at the sky I make shapes
And throw my troubles into orbit
As though I'm writing them down
Making a list of all the things that trouble me
Things that normally annoy begin to falter
The demons that like to alter us for the worse
I cast them upwards
And a grumbled curse that needled me
Leaves this thimble of thoughts
And the nervous anticipation of another day
Is soothed for a while.