My mistress’ eyes are the only thing I see when I sleep.However hard I try to escape the bounds of boundless affection,all I do is dream of her glacial gaze,in the service of a temptress,reeling all day, long after I have awoken.It isn’t a bad life, to be in love. Last night, she told me…

My body is a party,but nobody is invited,because I am a terrible host,toasting my terrible timorousness,taking in the empty room and taking a shallow breath as the sound of silence sends me into tears. How do you fall in love when you are in love with self loathing?I heard once that I could meet somebody…

It was 4am, and I was in Dartford park.There was nothing to be afraid of anymore,nowhere to hide and nothing to hide from,just the steady back and forth of the swings as I rang out my own personal new year, months and hours too late.I had decided that day, that I was going to start…

Meekly, she comes before me,her lips parted as she prays,aching and consumed by the cruelty of life before love,it’s way past time, but I let that pass me by, and I just hold her. Reborn, like a saviour on a Sunday,I am fresh in her fantasies,lace on my skin, petals in my perfume,overboard in our…