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I Can’t Afford To Go Overboard
The sea swept softly against the steel of the hull,she had left her last words on my shoulder,with a swift kiss that clearly stated that the word “last” meant nothing to her.The ocean reached up towards me,eager to earn my trust and tell me a tale,aching to ask me why I had forgotten the art…
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Final Moments
It was the day after the dazed daydream before,and I had dreamed of a hurried escape from certain death,clasped in the grasp of my own lapsed judgement,I had been in all kinds of trouble, as usual.Up to my knees in never ending nonsense,wading through water that was born of my own eyes,a ship that went…
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The Time Is Twelve Minutes To Seven
The time is twelve minutes to seven,war is rumbling under the Earth,and I am being pulled from Heaven,to settle down into some kind of hell. I stare from my sheets at a crashing, cosmic ocean,the waves are weary but wonderful,slowly springing to life as the sun follows suit,but I know it is only ever occasional,never…
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Shadow Banned
I left lavender letters on the pillowcase,my eyes glittering in the sunrise’s gaze.There were shadows spying in the door way,but I had resigned myself to life as a laboured spirit,so I had accepted it long ago.The shadows toddled down the hallway behind me,endlessly emulating the soft sway of my hips,but never quite getting it,reaching into…