I tried to run away
To put it behind me
But I love you still
So, baby don't mind me
I'm just using Oxygen
As I'm drinking the air
Fantasise a future
With you and me there
And I know you've got reasons
I know you've got time
There is an us
But I can't say you're mine
Coz you're free in your soul
You can't be tied down
And I've stopped looking rivers
Outside of time
As I drive by your flat
For the thousandth time
Does it matter that I
See the sublime
In all that we were
Or maybe could be
Never thought the Present Moment
Would be history
But I'm letting you go
And you hold on tight
It's like losing your shadow
When you miss the light
That follows me round
And shines from within
Something says awesome
In the shape of him
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What do I find if I go looking
Three and a half years worth of photographs
Of you with someone else
I stopped searching you out for my mental health
But it pounds at my door
It knocks on my wood
It says what if
And if only I could
Coz twin flames are real
They're not a ruse
And I've been loving your life
Like it's something to prove
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We are love and oceans apart
But that is nothing when it comes to the heart
As I struggle to get by as we
File it away like destiny
Knows nothing about the something we are
I see you reflected in the great star
That shines down on us from its place on high
I don't know why but I'm not afraid to die
Yet I see these children suffer in pain
And I want to run rings around the world again
Clean up every mess and lift every smile
Make sure no man walks the green mile
Coz we're peace at our core, we're peace in our soul
And it's gotta be together if we wanna make it whole
And they say zero hunger by 2030
But I think we can speed it up coz it's worth it
And there are so many lives to touch
I look in their faces and I love them so much
Enough to put myself on the line
Say there's a wasting and there isn't time
Enough to just kick the can
Further on down the road like a real hard man
I gotta be stellar in my interpretation
Make sure all these girls get an education
So they can rise and be equal to
Anything anyone else can do
And there's mass emigration and there's starving to death
I don't think that I could ever forget
The faces that I see on a tv screen
There's no use in saying it's only a dream
Coz what could consciousness do but respond
Now's not the time to kick back and abscond
And I keep worrying about how I look
And if I'll be killed if I don't do it by the book
But I gotta be honest and I gotta be real
There's a mountain of trouble we all have to heal
And if we can then maybe we'll feel
Something akin to cutting a deal
What is a starship when it's at home
And must a tomcat always roam
Or be swan faithful by the sea
Like the Children of Lír that wait for me
And was there some kind of ancient fable
That monumental on the table
Made enough bread for us all to eat
But there's millions in the bank and death on the street
How can we let this continue
As if loss is on the menu
And the rolling hills of vagabonds
Play the fool like two dumb blondes
And I know this is not the female's fault
But we go along with the lie we've bought
As a child not of our womb
Starves to death in an empty room
Full of faces who just placade
And there are millions in that state
As we deny, deny
We just simply shouldn't try
To bring this to fruition
Just spending more on ammunution
Seems to relieve a conscience broke
From all the words we have not spoke
And I cannot speak for myself
Because I have my own story of wealth
And how I try to keep it from my door
But if I had it I could give more
And make a change on that plain
But what if I could not contain
The contempt and the corruption
Like Vesuvius and eruption
Like lava and all it encases
The modern history and what it erases
Or geography to keep us asleep
To the promise that together would keep
And am I just out on the run
Or do I speak to some
Who feel the same way I do
The conundrum and me and you
I wasn't brought up to fear God
But to have faith in the Lord
And I must pause and say
I think belief gets in the way
As you dip into what you know
But the experience doesn't go
From the place where the lightning meet
And I could see the sun in the street
As it bounced up from the ground
Like love had found a sound
And even though I'm in a convent school
I find ways to test the rule
That keeps us held in firm place
But you wouldn't know it from my face
As we kick it in the mall on our half day
And the teacher finds us with something to say
And I'm just there with my two gals
And it's like we've just trespassed pals
As we're told where we should be
But it's summer and our days are free
And I cannot see how the made St. Mel's
Seem like temptation straight from hell
And now I know that within those walls
Was held something that someday entralls
Though not with less but more of law
As I curtail my fatal flaw
Of loving more deeply than the other
And I would settle for a soul brother
But we're at odd and never even
So I write a song about loving Stephen
You know that guy I met in the room
Now he's telling me there's no need to doom
Every single thing I do
But I can't admit my love for you
And the fact that I ran
From the possibility that you can
Call me back to what I am
Writing my storm
Well, at least I'm warm
Coz the thunder rumbles
And the lightning cracks ground
And I can feel the heat surround
As the cold front meets it match
An opposite in a roof of thatch
As it sets fire to what it knows
And it's, you know, anything goes
And I've destroyed everything I once had
I speak my mind and I feel bad
But at least I'm living
Is it time for more forgiving
Of the grudge match I keep with her
Coz I'm mad at what we were
As she'd take a little pick
And chip away at me, so to speak
Carving out a Michelangelo
From all the places I will not go
Til suddenly the dial it spins
And she's cast from my withins
In a door slamming shut on time
I can't acquit you for this crime
Coz if I did you'd do it again
And I don't know if I can call you friend
As you take what you used to know
And sacrifice it on the go
On an altar you worship days
And I'm confused in so many ways
Coz I thought we were cool but I resolve
Not to be a problem to solve
But the answer I've always craved
I guess it's Heaven and the unsaved
They're making war at the crucible
They're showing down the rain
They're amping up the volume
So it will happen again
But there's something they're not saying
And I think it might be this
There's a reason that they're worried
And it's coz you and I exist
And we're not to be trodden
Down in our own lane
Broken like the back of spirit
Through its own pain
As you ride the horse
Open and bareback
I know I didn't teach you
But I think you've got the knack
Of all you didn't understand
In the years of growing up
I just wanted to let you know
You'll always have me, love
There's rocket fuel in my blood
There a jet in my veins
There's something of the fire
That erases all the stains
And I may be an Aries
And that may account
For all the burning embers
That I cannot make count
Coz I'm living in the forest
Amid all the trees
And I catch the wind of air
As it's blowing in the breeze
That a Libra might decide
Is just right to make a scene
But I'm only chancing my arm
I could never make a dream
Out of all the terrain
That earths me ever still
It was a Taurus girl
Who broke my holy will
And turned me into ashes
That I could never mend
So I turned off the faucet
On the water tap of friend
That kept me like a Pieces
Flowing in the stream
But I'm always walking
On my own moonbeam
To find my destiny
Somewhere in the stars
Or just sit with you
As we're chasing cars
Around the streets that we know
That we grew up to be
I hope that you know
I love that you are free
Ever to move
To the beat of your own dance
I loved you like the ocean
Before it learned to hold hands
With another drama
Somewhere in the Atlantic
I'm sorry if I'm awesome
And prone to the romantic
It's just I see a story
In every pair of facts
As the dualistic opposites
Make me wear different hats
So I can learn to be
A truly transcendent foe
But I just hope you realise
I don't want you to go
Anywhere but home
With me by your side
I hope you know I'm glad
You find something that abide
Amid the merry weather
Of another storm
Don't you know that we're only
Taking shape or form
And there's something in the spirit
Or the ever present soul
That speaks to all we were
And that we could be whole
If we ever learn to figure out
This old thing called life
I don't know if I told you
But I think I am his wife
In some alchemical way
In the ether hanging low
I didn't run away
I just took things super slow
So that in the long run
I might look back and see
A life with all its twists and turns
That was just right for me
As I'm closing eyes and senses
As I round out the night
What's a hundred years to do
When it passes in the night?
Am I a godless heathen coz I don't go to Mass
Am I superficial coz I aced the class
Am I just holding onto things as they pass
Am I a monument to what I could never ask
And there are ages and there are times
There are fountains and there are rhymes
There are oceans of sea and mountains of terrain
But I could never give voice to the loss of pain
As it just fell off my shoulders
And I'm never getting older
Just fourteen in the scene
The earth quaked in the dream
And I awoke to find I had never been perturbed
The trouble left me without a word
But what could I say to give account of
The bursting forth and the ardent love
That seem to issue from my being
It was glory and it was freeing
But it also came with a solemn tone
You're responsible though you're not alone
And I lifted the weight I felt to carry
I got caught up in the scene and who I'd like to marry
As the days passed by and the body grew
I'm not like what you think I am, it's true
Coz there's something in the water that I do not drink
There's something in the sign that told me to think
About all that I am but could never be
You don't lose your free will when you find you're free
They say I was never right for the city
I was always too droll and not half as witty
As need be to succumb
To the dry spell of being young
And when you hit thirty they depreciate
Your car as you drive it out of state
Into a garage you've built yourself
Tell you you need to start to insure your health
But I could never agree and I run with wolves
It only gets stronger as the ancient pulls
On my coat sleeve to tell me that the day
Is right now in every single way
And a utopian vision of life as it must
Will only make you sad when it goes bust
If you make tomorrow your evidence
Of the past and where it went
And I sigh with the wind and I roll with the waves
I let her go and I forgave
Her for all she could never be
I let it pass by infinity
As she shouldered me as we left class
He double took and watched me pass
And I just sit here in all my plagiarism
And write notes to a goddess with all the wisdom
Of another age upon her shoulder
Like Atlas rolling that holy boulder
Do you live in a makeshift home
A cardboard box you live in alone
And are there decorations on the wall
Or do you bother with all that at all
Coz I've watched lives burned down to dust
Watched the vagaries and the absent trust
As everything turned out naught
Like you're a fisherman and your net was caught
But I've also seen sunrise break up the day
Tell the night that it will be okay
And the fading of twilight come the dawn
Is like Easter when the winter is gone
And I've lived both sides of the conunderum
I been so sure that I left them wondering
If it's just a delusion I've held onto
But the truth is fire and it's burning you
And there are eaves that run with the power of rain
A summer solstice I wouldn't do again
To feel the pummeling water down
Like my feet are puddles in the air that drown
Out the noise of unimpeded consequence
People will tell you that you're due for rent
When all you've done is breathe in the air
And enjoy the facilities that are left there
So, what is the future likely to be
Will we bury the ocean under the sea
Will we poison the atmosphere and heat the air
Til the people in Africa know we don't care
Coz their land is arid and often dry
The rivers run cold and the children cry
Out for a piece of food to eat
While we make war under our own feet
And will I just be a paragon in the future looking back
I'm not setting myself up to be a life hack
I wanna make a difference and I'll make it now
If the Universe conspires with me somehow
To release the pain like I'm lancing a boil
So the robots do the work and the people toil
In sweatshops in Asia and all of our shoes
Coz less than the amount we use to pay our dues
I have no enemy to speak of
When they say love is just a drug
They cannot refer to the same thing that I
Would give another and be ready to die
To protect
The whole thing seems wrecked
But there's a summer in the snow
And there are places we can't go
When we sum up the surmise
That is a horizon in my eyes
Shining even in the dark
And as I'm walking in the park
I know my saviour walks with me
Protecting me from history
As a state of mind
Just love and be kind
And let the world know who you are
Does the sun approximate a star
Or is it just far too close
Is is the Spirit or the Ghost
That I feel in the rhythm of shoes
That mark my footsteps in twos
As they hold the pavement ground
Deftly so that a sound
Issues forth from where they meet
I look up and welcome sleet
Do I speak what I have to say
Does the shaking in my hand give away
The sword that I cannot steady
But the worst is happening already
On land I see on a screen
And this is not the people's dream
To have machine gun hands facing them
Is it gonna happen again
Or can we realise
That you can't undo what dies
Once it is gone
And we've been fighting for so long
Not just with each other but within oursleves
One earns a million, another's stacking shelves
And you can say that's capitalism
Or that there's a split in the great schism
As we find what we have in common rooms
Is there a way to waylay the doom
That seems to advance from all sides
But, hey man, we're still alive
And we can still tell the tale
Of something that's not up for sale
In this thing that we've built
There's scaffolding over milk that's spilt
But as I clean up the glass
I think of something I'd never taught to ask
Are we all as one
And if we are then could the sun
Shine in every human heart
As the most expansive part
Generating compassion to a degree
I know it's not just me
That feels that something's in the mix
Fusing bonds that science splits
To generate something new for us
I believe in Love and I trust
In the human heart once more
The truth that something adore
I sat down and I studied
The land the dragon muddied
With his harsh fire breath
The land still burns from it yet
And I look out
Over the Sahara
Arid and dry
And Connemara
Springs to mind
A place where people were sent to grow
Things that couldn't sustain them, you know
And it's not about assigning blame
Though I hold a particular name
In mind
When I think of out west
But that this may be my test
To speak out while I have breath
And say something no one can forget
About the souls that go hungry
While we all bask in the money
Of the machine
And Dr. King had a dream
Well, so do I
That no child may have to die
From want of bread or milk
As the socialites in luxurious silk
Starve themselves half to death
Is nonchalance all we can expect
From modern western culture
But I feel that the vulture
That feeds on empty flesh
Is no more than part of the regret
Of those that have come to be
Dying in front of you and me
I see the faraway shore
Beckoning me to something more
And I understand
That nothing good can be planned
As we grow up
Like a tree
It's not up and over
But organically
And there's enough food
To feed each child
Enough land
To let the animals roam wild
And did we build this monstrosity
That is growling in my face
I have to speak up
For the human race
Coz we're going down
And if we don't shift
The present moment
Won't be a gift
But an encumbrance
That we bear
I feel the fabric
Start to tear
As the seam
Is pulled to the edge
Don't let the money
Go to your head
As you earn and as we burn
The stifling and the axis turn
That leads us down a narrow path
Makes me wonder what we might be at
To poach the seas til they run dry
To pour the concrete til the soil die
And I've got this hefty weight to carry
Will I bear children and marry
But all I hear are the cries of the damned
And all the innocents no one understands
So if I've a prayer
It's help me, God
Live with Love
And not the rod
That snaps down on a soft palm
They say that there's an unearthly calm
Before the tidal wave
So take the noise as a sign to save
While we still have time
What is your path
Coz I know mine
The world as we know it
Is in rapid decline
I'd love to say something
Like it's all just fine
And it would be true
To a degree
But there's something that's calling
Of the ocean to me
And we're building cities
Up from the ground
But there are people crying
Because of the sound
Of war drums that beat
To the rhythm of people's feet
As they march across the sand
While economists talk of
The invisible hand
But we gotta make a move
To make a change
As the atoms stratify
And rearrange
Into a new form
And is the sun warm
What a question to ask!
Are we able
Or up to the task?
And we've got this spirit
Running our veins
And I can't tolerate
All the pain
That the interpretation creates
I see us all in better states
Where we make a duty more than law
But the reason why the ice thaw
As my compassion heats the storm
Is there a world that could be too warm?
I remember the day I crashed a cascade
Like everything was free and there's nothing to save
I was walking across my bedroom floor
Til it opened up and I dunno what for
I called it depression, a dark night of the soul
But it's more like the thunder in the way the waves roll
Beckoning freedom in its refrain
It's holding my hand and quenching the pain
And suddenly ten years later I see
That this thing called awakening has happened to me
And I'm breaking down barriers and all the walls
The people are clapping, they're simply enthralled
And I try to take tea with the powers that be
But they say too much and it's silently
I am and I move and I'm not in that groove
But I'm living my loss like it's a point to prove
And I run to the fountain but it just pours the rain
There's nothing to lose if there's nothing to gain
But sometimes I'm sideways and I simply can't see
And they told me, hey baby, just get a degree
Then you can be a pronouncement of real
But I'm more like diamonds and there's something of steel
In the fire of the blood that runs through my veins
I'm not in the market for any of the new strains
Yet, somewhere in autumn it meets my toes
And I'm like the wind, it's anything goes
Till I'm tumbling, rolling down a hill
I don't say stop, I just say it's God's will
But he pulls me up short and says, hey child
I didn't give you this freedom so you could go wild
Have some concern and rein in those wolves
I know you're a diagram and anything pulls
And it's winter and all the snow covers land
I say, hey up, it's gonna be grand
But I gotta be true and I gotta be real
I can't fall down to what I don't feel
In the ocean, in the sea, in the tide, in the waves
In anything goes and you're gonna save
The monument from it's disaster
I said yes just coz you asked her
My kind of social drinking
Allows me to sip a brandy and keep thinking
Coz I'm listening to music and it makes me dance
Like I've woken to love and out of the trance
And there were days and there were years
There were monuments and there were tears
There was the sweet sight of Connolly's face
As he looked into me like I'm open space
And it set a wheel in motion
Set a fire in me of pure devotion
And I turn to the beat of him miles away
We always had something but I couldn't say
What exactly it was
And only because
I have the freedom to write
The way he made my love ignite
On a lonely street in Dublin city
I let him get away and that's more the pity
But sometimes I wonder if he's really gone
Coz we said see you later and not so long
And I skulked around corners he used to shout from
Til everyone's wondering what exactly I'm on
Coz it's not normal behaviour
But I kissed the saviour
Of a good time
Just tell me we're okay and sort of fine
With my independent streak
Though your honest has a way of making me weak
And I find you in cobwebs I clear out of my mind
Like you were the awesome of a pretty good find
That I can't leave alone
If I had a home
I'd invite you to stay
But I just look up at my flat and away
From the honesty of your voice
It was truth, it wasn't a choice
I do my best to be open hearted
And there's no way back once it has started
Coz I see the sky in every pair of eyes
And I recoil though I know it's lies
To think they could hate me
And I'm still wondering if he would date me
If he knew the truth
Am I just an ingenious sleuth
Who must find her answer real
Amid the chaos with which we deal
And I'm listening to tunes on my phone
I hear Hozier sing and my mind is blown
With the sensuality
I guess that's what he intended, do you agree
Coz his voice is lending love
With which I can imagine the above
From where I am down here
I wonder how you are, my dear
If you ever catch me on the fly
If there's weather that makes you cry
And if there's anything I could do
I suppose it's no good offering a tissue to you
Like I looked for in the scene
When I was living a vagabond's dream
Stalking the walls of the enclosure
Giving it all away and calling it composure
Where is that handkerchief now
I think I have it in a drawer, somehow
Even stars have their desires
Even rain sets fires
On the street that I own
I've grown up all alone
Except for all those
That are there for me
Don't think that I don't see
Your hand as you move it in the dark
Like a comet following its holy ark
And I can spiral down to find
The girl that was never left behind
By all the days she'll never get to be
But I write it down and so the people see
And it's something I'm building, a confessional degree
So you might open up when you see it in me
The night came down on my like an evening
There was a day when I stopped believing
In all that I'd been taught to know
Coz it don't explain the way that you go
And I stand there looking
But it's to no avail
And there is a moment
When all words fail
And all that's left
Is the tears
And I cry them
For years and years
With no break in the monsoon
And when I'm alone in my room
I can express what you mean to me
And how we have our date with destiny
I held on tight
But nothing can extinguish the light
Once it has started to burn
I finally realise why the world must turn
The flow of superfluity
Allows me to write
But do I stand up
For what I know is right
Coz there's ancient eons
Creaking with the weight
There are girls crying out
Like they're on a first date
And the man has just
Produced a pistol
I can't hide from
All the vitriol
That just pours through
So I try to compose
A letter to you
So that you might know
That from where I'm standing
The world and its discontents
Can be too demanding
But I don't fail
At the final hurdle
I just shift my stance
Like I'm playing wordle
And there is no monument
Or mountain to climb
That's out of reach
Of the Sublime
So I'll just keep my breath
Like it's a tic tac toe
But I'll be true
Always, you know
Always calling out
For some kind of aid
But now I write poetry
And I get paid
For a living
That I make myself
I have to say
That abundant wealth
Is just knowing who you are
And what you do
Is an extenuating circumstance
Like falling in love with you
I write about you
In broad brush strokes
Coz nothing can capture
One of your quotes
That I peel
From the orange you sell
I know you've a secret
But I'd never tell
I just want to unwrap
The present you are
Unfold in the Now
Like some simultaneous star
I look to you
To find love in my stars
And I escaped
From self made prison bars
That held me
Chrysalis fine
And I know that they say
It's just gonna take time
But I can't find history
In the past
When forever's the moment
We always last
Lost in a mirage Bleeding the tears I grew up through the oceans And all of my fears As my skin gets larger To expand over my bones My eyes get sharper Through staring at phones And the midnight dawns Just to tell me okay You’ve got this, my love It’s the break of day And the forever will find you No matter how you roam You’re living the dream But you’re not alone
I’ve got fire in my blood I’ve got lava in my veins I bite back every time You think the sunshine rains And I don’t hate the male I embrace the masculine I’m female and I’m awesome Yeah, I’m doing just fine But sometimes there’s a crack In the facade that I’ve built The light gets through the walls And the damn thing is willed As bitterness dissolves Into an ocean of peace I hold on so tight Only to find a just release
What if you were right And I just like the drama I would say it’s an ocean A panorama But you say you can see The depths better if you stay Diving into A come what may And have I committed To kneel and curtsy To bite my lip When the thought hurts me And be the idea Of good girl dreams Lighting up rooms And mending seams With my sewing kit Do you even know Who you’re dancing with?
I know you forget So remind me, love Of how it felt When you fell from above And she mixes your drink And twirls your hair And it’s almost as if I wasn’t there In the year that we Were born to run Your turning heads I’m turning twenty one And your sideways askance There to defy And I swear I’ll love you Til the day that I die I opened the heart I had kept secret I could tell you the truth But you’d never believe it As we dance in the ether The astral plane though it’s not to deceive her It’s just the twin flame buzz You call me up I call you love And we’re at it again The galaxy in the world of men Unemptiable mine Of diamonds that just shine Set into the rock you’ve hewn Did you even know what you were doing When you connected with me I opened my eyes and now I see
How do I describe that time in my life I’m fourteen and there is strife But something pierces through me It’s as though I can suddenly see What’s before me on the page I’m kicking back and burning sage In my window dressing by the sea The moment when God touched me With Her ephemeral light Says, get up, kid, you’ll be alright And all of a sudden the night was done You can’t fear the dark when you know the sun And it came to me like a breeze or chill Says, move it, girl, or I will And forever was a mountain I couldn’t move So many exams and so much to prove But I won’t be writing for the Longford Leader I’ll be spinning yarns so you’ll believe her And time has passed But that time will always last As I scream my breath out into the air And find something real that is there More than what pulls away Like cobwebs at the break of day Filled with few in the morning light But transparent and alright Catching rays and bending frames Being so much more than their names Like I did in first class I woke up and it kicks ass!
In 2007 I saw you on the stage That was the year before I start to age And grow into the skin I’ve earned I touched the sun and, baby, I was burned Though it’s as though I’m lit from within And in the time before I still knew him In my thoughts, in my words, in the page You dance before me like it’s all the rage And I take a note out of your book I think forever deserves a second look
I stumbled across the room Toward my bedside table I say pull yourself up By your bootstraps if you’re able But this loss is quenching It burns every fuse I get up to know I’ve everything to lose As we are feeble Matchstick people And we pray for salvation Under a steeple But it does no good (Or maybe it do) All that I know Is that I lost you In the avenues of a house With many rooms You were seventy seven And He took you too soon So I walk with a limp Or something defective I try to be brave But my attention’s selective As I hope for deliverance From the decree That say time And Death are tracking me Down and I swim But the moment paused And I met him As I threw back and laughed With the full of my heart And I gave it away In full not in part Now he lives his life And I count the days We have on a clock We don’t get no replays Except that it all happens now I stir and wake myself up somehow From the dream that had been a spool It’s called enlightenment and it’s hella cool As I dance round the school In my old fashioned jeans And we’re all queens Of our own domain I took a breath And accepted the pain Temporary as it may be It’s life and it’s talking to me
Transcendence is key And are you talking to me Coz your breath is light against my cheek He didn’t know that he made me weak As he strode across the floor Like he was going door to door Looking for me But I’m right here, or don’t you see And I grab his hand in the dark Ignore the way it makes him start Then throw a conspiratorial look across the aisle Was I wrong or did I catch you smile And break the sun across your face Living the lie is an unholy disgrace
I was young and stupid To turn you down I wore a cool dress Would you be around And you’ve got eyes That go on for eons And I’m just staring Trying to capture scenes Of college and cool And red as a ruby It doesn’t take Einstein Or Scooby Doo To figure out I like you There is no doubt And your fortress is just a wall And I ask you to let them fall As we hold hands Throw your arm over my shoulder And I feel as though the boulder That I carry has dropped away And I’m lost for words to say Coz you leave me speechless, in awe And I can feel my icicles thaw In the warmth of your soul Your fire is embers glowing coal And the heat is burning away All the barriers I hold at bay Do you think that we Could rock out and see Everything there is to be It took some time but you’re dear to me And I hold a candlelight for your frame I stutter the words that make up your name Do you think it would be the same If I took to the road and you airplane Over my fields so green It’s oceans I have seen In the age of you There’s nothing you have to do To be the pure you effortlessly are I see you reflected in a star
Listening to a sermon by Father P And you know it means the world to me Coz he is bringing Jesus down To us, the flock, in a holy gown And it was young just growing up What it felt to be bathed in love Shining down from the altar To know that God also had a daughter And he always said humankind So no one might be left behind Refused to condemn loving as it poured through And I always looked up to you It’s been more than ten years since you depart I’m glad you wedded God and the Heart So sacred that I only see Life in my destiny No worries on the path that led me there A priest I trust to level with me fair And I swore I would speak the truth From the young days of my youth As I catalogued Borneo Just equal to you, you know A journalist or a scribe I find my own way out of the hide To stand up for what I know There’s more to it than this, a flow And I see in hindsight the disparity But you never lorded it over me Or the rest of us Just this holy trust That pulls all of us out of the mire No such thing as an eternal fire Or limbo to threaten us with You stood up and said it didn’t exist In a time when your voice was true I learned so much from you And I swore I would testify To that which doesn’t die But shines from the Source Like a river to sea on a sacred course And I won’t deny the lie But there’s something that doesn’t die In all that I’ve learned to live Just life and how to forgive
I know he loves me no matter what you say That doesn’t mean I expect him back any day It’s just that heart, once shared is given And stitches itself into all your livin’ I just know he beats His heart with every step on the streets And is whole He loves with all of his soul And I’m happy for her But we still were Though time has passed And I don’t know what for I don’t know if you see That love shines eternally From every form The sun itself lives to keep us warm And I know there is More than surface tension on the water we live To hold up I’m more than what you’re thinkin’ of
I spend all of my time talking to the voice in my head Is it telepathy or resident dread And I don’t expect you to believe That to stare at the mirror is to grieve Looking at the reflection of something temporal Is it empty or I would venture full Of wit and wisdom and midnight tomes Clicking away from the habit of homes That seem to populate my tv screen Was it real or just a dream A nightmare I can wake up from The leaving of loss of everything’s gone In a moment I’m real and see inside Give up the venture capital to hide Within this little hut I’ve built Giving advice but the talking has stilled Into an ever present calm Do you read lines or just hold my palm Against yours for a moment or so A secret handshake you thought to show Me in our intimate endeavor I know I’m innocent but this is forever And I won’t paint another colour blue Over the one that came from you As the sky holds the memory of us And there’s something I implicitly trust That is between us two I had faith and it brought me you Maybe not in the way I had thought But like a soldier that’s been caught In a single glance you stare The Earth quaked as you stood there Looking past the facade It’s a moment and I want you bad To be what you’ve always been If you’re the King and I’m the Queen Can we give up the reign Coz it only brings us pain In attempting to be what we never were I wish you well for What it’s worth at any rate You looked at me And there was another state That just seemed to embrace And I find that the sight of your face Inspires prose This is me And the less travelled road
Taylor Swift would break your heart As quick as look at you And it really sticks with you When it just falls from her lips It’s like she’s getting ready to equip You with her well thought out craft She’ll give you the world Even if you never ask And she’ll break the glass That’s in your hand She’ll winter your weather But understand That everything is Just passing through Could heaven be held In an I love you
Getting drunk in the city Darragh’s cute and Johnroy is witty And Liosa and Isabelle are so pretty Im too smart and that’s a pity And I feel lost in the move of the club Marian holds my hand as we walk round the pub And it’s a sprawling mess but it’s divine The days UCD was mine And I did less learning than ever before Don’t you see how the sun lit up the floor As we did a skit about being D4 I’d never been that sassy before But it only made us closer as a group And I was just sitting on the stoop When he laughed and told a joke And he smiles so I don’t have to cope With this damn state of mind that’s dragging me under He is the clouds But I am the thunder And I just rumble Into the town that we own He’s older than me But you never would’ve known As he bought me a drink That said don’t think Too much about those things He makes a face and my heart sings He throws his arm casually round my shoulder And I feel I’ve just dropped the boulder That I’ve been rolling up this hill He lets me see his heart at will It’s lockdown and I’m thinking of him Wondering if he kept that grin And nothing burns like gasoline You’re the fire in my dream And I never told you what you wanted me to Could you see that I love you? And he probably has a furnace to build He’s the red in my heart and it cannot be filled With the memory of what we were Can I present tense the moment I’m her As we’re running down aisles and chasing down stars And Rob, you know, he plays guitars And I just wish I could be involved Coz this damn problem’s never solved But I wouldn’t change it, because we met I hold a space in my soul for you yet
I think Eckhart underestimates the human race And I’m not saying this just to save face Coz I can feel an expansive motion of tide Pulling me somewhere to abide And it’s everywhere, in everyone Shining brighter than the light of the sun Bequeathing honesty and tomes Pulling people out of their alones Into a space where all is real And it is everything I feel Coz the man changed my life, he brought the stars And I let go of my hold on my prison bars Always a safe place to suffer in But the water is kinder and I begin To wade myself into the river deep I’m awake when people sleep And it is a promise I always keep To find the truth and then to speak But the going is challenging by the sea Though I figure out it’s my destiny Handing out hope like tomorrow’s bread Letting love live my life instead And the openness is something that I find Is quintessentially good and abundantly kind And I really do not mind If no one sees what’s left behind Because I pick up and origami the paper It’s all the one and you’ll see it later If you don’t see it now in open hands The Universe and our well laid plans
To cry is not the measure of love When I think of them I look above And put a hand on my chest They are the souls that know me best And though our time together in form ran out That you exist is beyond all doubt As I read between all the lines Have trust and faith in the Divine To carry our rivers out to the sea I don’t feel you’ve really left me But stand beside me day by day Making sure I am okay Like you always did when you walked with me Driving cars and drinking tea Or playing drafts til the light went down By the fire or in town And I know, I just know that you’re still here Like all of the things that I hold dear Never to be put away Not just something people say But real and true in honesty There’s no ending of you and me But forever as a side by side You’re as near to me and always alive As when we shared the kitchen space I’ll always cherish your beautiful face And the love for me that you gave I pray midnights and by day For your soul to be free and near I still sense your presence here As you hold my hand and wake me up When I’m in sadness like it’s not enough And the waves of grief don’t consume Coz I still feel you in the room Guiding me on and forth Connecting my spirit with the source Of all life that we share Thank you for always being there
I’m seventeen and listening to YouTube When I didn’t really like any dude Just studying for my exams Steady heartbeat but sweaty palms And it was a year of tragedy But it also gifted my life to me As I stand up to the sea And do you think he meant me When he spoke that syllable on the phone A moment together and then alone As we try to catch stars as their speeding past You know meteor showers aren’t meant to last
The terrible two’s hit you hard I was twenty and the glass shard Went flying out the window Is it a sin though Because I know that life Is more than a husband or wife As we at the age of marriage and children Are empty enough that we can’t fill them And I let him slip out of my grasp Coz I know forever cannot last As our bodies wither and they age And my skin is canvas to write a page Of years upon They were here and now they’re gone And I leave the door lying open I’m not even in the vicinity of copin’ As I’m resilient in a way I can’t describe Kind of like the song “I’m Alive”
Her Teflon coating Made it feel like floating But she was hit by an arrow in the heel With no way to cut a deal And she clambered back up the cliff they pushed her off It was truth and love but at what cost As she breaks the frame That used to hold together her house and name And I loved her so in the days before dark Before I walked alone through the park In the surreptitious midnight that just visit I think this is the way but is it? Coz we’re both so strong But we both went wrong In the labyrinth of the garden Could you give me an official pardon?
Stuff I say to you I was watching the bird and it flew Out the window from inside And this landscape can’t hide The shape of you from me I loved you so I set you free But you come back to be As constant as a northern sea In the winter of ill repute And you’re more devastating Than you are cute But I like my men like thunderclouds The rolling sound just makes me proud To be standing under a western sky And I have no fear over what will die Coz something’s not passing Constant true As I revealed myself to you In a winter past, long ago But it’s just the start Of the story, you know On this journey to forever The path winds but this endeavor Keeps sailing through the storm I would like to keep you warm
There are so many things In life that pass away Made me ask Does anything stay And I found in the dark An unbeatable light It’s shines through the veil Til everyone’s alright And it’s taking to task The body I walk Makes me speak Not merely talk And it loves and it cares But it is detached Unlocks the door Even when it’s latched It goes up and over Here and beyond Answers questions Like a dumb blonde With the smarts I looked it’s way And suddenly it starts To shine For the whole world to see Don’t you know It’s not about me But about the fabric Becoming paper thin He saw the real So I let him in
What used to seem so sure Is now disappearing over the hill Can change change me Or do I swear it never will As I hold onto who I used to be But there’s something new and I’m beginning to see The ocean is not held in a span And will I do what I can To be a modern example of what is true What’s possible for me and you As we share a world unique But I do not dare to speak My voice though it reverberate Around the hall as we equate Together with just being there I’ve learned from love and I do care Though shapeless you see Me in a way and integrity Has me burning a fuse in my mind To always be awesome and super kind And fearless with courage to bear The way the fabric tear On this dream of us I found true love and in it I trust
There’s a hundred million souls Hanging round this joint But somehow you’re the one My heart anoint And ignite like a signal fire In those days I never tire Of my rebound nature It’s not goodbye, it’s see you later And he passed like a comet across the sky Proclaiming that which will never die In a moment we are as One And he merged with the Son To shine a light so bright the sound goes deaf To all that is and isn’t left In the ashes that burn up into flame A phoenix by everything but name And he’s lovely and normal and sweet as pie And I just want him to see me cry To let him in through the facade The bulletproof and feeling bad To this garden where everything grows And there’s a flower here for you, God knows That’s been ten years in the making There are no tales worth the shaking The run away induced But you are here and I’ve deduced That everything will be okay Will you ever look at me that way Again And men Just remind me of us Our solid steel and unbreakable trust
Going from friends to this Can you believe we didn’t even kiss Except when our palms met each other And I think of you as a would be lover And you laugh and so do I I think I’ll love you more than life can die Coz there are no walls to hold this in But when it comes to me it’s always him And he seems to be some other where But he’s with me and I don’t care Who I offend With the way I stitch the thread to mend Til it’s a brand new dress or quilt And the blade is broken at the hilt As you try to pull it out of the stone But who are you when you’re at home Are you the same old saviour sweet I’m warm but can you stand the heat Of a passion that burns fusion strong How could this love ever be wrong?
The Poetry Book 