Tuesday 15 April 2014

Only if for a Night




Shake it out.

Brutality 
and
rawness.

Drowning all that you dare to touch.

'Only if for a night',
the machines tell us.

A flower
can get lonely
without a sun,

to drown it 
in light.

My feet walk me
to places
on heaven and earth.

Knowing and unknowing
all that I am.


Sunday 23 March 2014

Dignity without Breathing



Hold me in a state of tension,
                                            my butterflies holding my breath for me.

Can I breathe through this,
                                        without passing out, and going under?

Holding me hostage,
                              is my fear of you, and what you will do.

Breaking for tears,
                            I bend like bamboo.

Losing everything,
                           I just can't breathe.

Dress me with dignity.



Friday 21 March 2014

Sink, Float, Light Up!



Like a candle,
                     burn bright again in your window.

Freedom is gained,
                            only by taking the risk you are so afraid of.

You will learn to sink and float,
                                               swimming for a dream to come true.

Let it go,
             for simplicity,
                                for innocence,
                                                      and for trust.

Sunday 23 February 2014

Slippery Grasp


Like water,
I slip out of your grasp.

No solid earth
to hold me.

Nothing for you 
to contain my being, 

as I fill up 
and
empty out

all that I am,
over and over.

A vase
full of 
mess and broken beautiful
flowers.

You wish to hold me. 

But,
you don't know how.


Sunday 9 February 2014

Silver Ashes


Silver ashes falling from the sky.

A bird flies past,
oblivious
to the changes arriving
to change a life
that is already broken.

If we have to give up something up
-for another life-

What is it going to be?

Knowing Pluto
will take everything 
away from us.

An Underworld
that wants our lives
for us.

Only we 
act
as though
we don't even 
want it.

Giving it up like an unwanted gift,
and 
asking for it back
after burning it
to ashes.


Sunday 2 February 2014

Supernova Heart

Come and sit with me
in your little star 
in the sky.


Waiting for your supernova.

Black hole
losing its grip
on 
our fear of love.

I can
and
I will

light you up,

like 
there was never a broken heart
to start with.

Eject the mass,
and 
be ready to burst open.

Love like the night-time sun.

Sunday 26 January 2014

A Photograph of Time that You Lost


You think

that you can make that time up, 
and
make it alive
again.

Take the photographs
but 
ignore the moment
as it is
actually
happening.

The sad thing is
that
you never get it back.

You can have your photographs, 
and 
look at the people in their romantic, rose coloured glasses. 

Loss disguised as memories.

I hope 
someday
you learn to appreciate 
the moment-the gift,

and not just the photograph.

Monday 20 January 2014

Liquid Space


Liquid Space
filling me up.
A Sea of Love,
satisfying my longing.
Swimming Around
in this liquid space,
I begin to feel loved,
to feel whole,
to feel fixed.

Liquid Space
Fulfill me in all my glory.
Show me to a New World
that I belong to.


Monday 13 January 2014

Ambitious Heart


I am
 an ambitious heart. 

I want my dreams 
as much as my dreams want me.

Ambition is not a crime.

Wanting to nurture 
your own whole person 
is not a crime. 


I want a life 
that when I am 99,
that when I am a 100, 

I will be able to say, 
I HAVE LIVED. 


If I cannot say that, 
 I have already been dead
a long time.


My heart is ambitious 
for soul, 
for love, 
for peace, 
for the world, 
for people.

Your ambition is your nurturing. 

We need both. 
Exclusions need not apply.