I miss David more than I can explain I look outside and it’s rain And it was always sun when he was around Like he gave meaning and life to sound And he burst colour into the scene As though I was alive within the dream And now all is dull and grey And what is it that people say Life is what you make it And love is deep so don’t forsake it But I don’t know how to utter your name Without making you take the blame For all that we could never be I saw you down on one knee Proposing to me But you laugh in my face and the indignity Of the moment have me cracking open The shell that was the kernel of hoping For more than just words on the page And the silent rage Pounds against the walls of my castle And I wonder is romance worth the hassle If it means I must go up against Your past and your present tense And maybe you’ll never know what it meant When you accepted the letter I sent
She tells me I’m delusional To still love the thread that pull Me from where I stood And they say it’s in your blood But the wood I frequent whispers things to me And it let me be Amid the chains a-binding And there are avenues I’m finding Back to where we were And you may still be with her I just wouldn’t know But the knot is letting go Into a landscape open and free And you are standing there with me
Looking for the gifts and the fruits Not growing up to be one of those suits I asked why I wasn’t suddenly wise And why it is that everyone dies If we’re all eternal And what is the infernal But another cast of the dice And reincarnation means more than twice What do people believe The kingdom of heaven up your sleeve Or something new He came to save all of you And his example Means no sheep is left stranded On a mountaintop His Love is a lot And I find it hard to bear The way the fabric suddenly tear The sky in two I was with him but thinking of You And summer came just like a minidress The ominous that I suppress Threatens to override The system that I’ve tried to hide In all the folds and creases of paper Get out of the rat race and caper That endlessly flies As somewhere in the distance a child cries With no one too soothe And I’m self indulgently in a mood Coz I don’t get my way But what would God say If he had breath to breathe And lungs with which the words were freed To express themselves Is it time to take honesty down off the shelves
She’s like a sister to me And there are waves in our history And all we are Shines brighter than any star As I hold her close to my heart In that place we’re never apart And it’s scary, letting the truth sneak through But I think I must let you know you Are the diagrams I always draw While waiting for the ice to thaw The expanse that opens a sky Of constellations that never lie And map our lives so precise We never fight coz we are alright With what we’ve been and what we do You’ve got to know the storm in my story is you As cold meets warm and sparks a fire The light of electricity to conspire To illuminate the dark of night Are you okay coz I’m alright I’m just sneaking sideways to see what you’re at If you’ve got the genie, I’ve got the mat And we can make the scene extra real With the fabric of daydreams with which we deal And there are moments that we steal While waiting for the film to reel And you have got these books written in your soul I can see the weight of time getting old With all that you’re not letting through How is it I can see it better than you? When you’re so informed when it comes to the spirit And there’s been a call but did you hear it If there’s something in your way will you clear it Or just stay back and silently fear it Coz all the tomorrows are brewing their own tea And you have been the closest thing to me That I could’ve ever known I love you with the heart of true colours shown And in the midnights that read our book Do you think this thing deserves a second look To let go and be I’m onto your iceberg reality
The Poetry Book 