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Forecast
There are contentious clouds,crashing and colliding,but fortune falls from them,so I don’t mind.A terrible mistake becomes a tornado,but I’m off to Oz on the next house,with Ruby slippers and my prettiest dress,destined to forget,clean and tidy when the storm clears,with a clear conscience and a clear notification screen.October approaches,the leaves jump from their branches in…
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Taking Flight
The streets were paved with people’s dreams,and I walked them in my cheap shoes,hoping that my own would be a nice addition.
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Schedule
I don’t go down to the lakes anymore.There’s nothing left for me.The birds have all gone away,and the night swallows the sky a little sooner every day,so there’s no sunsets left,just an endless cycle of soft and then harsh darkness.That’s all there is to see.Dark dawns.Dark nights.Dark hours in between as the clock ticks, tocks…
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I read your message, and then I put my phone down and went back to my dinner
I’m your opium.You’re overdosing.Barely coping,hot sweats,huge debts to the devil.You spend and you spend,beg, again and again,I scare you to death,but you can’t stay away.I look in your eyes,and I see what I’ve done.I don’t feel a thing,and you feel everything.
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Navigating
I used to believe that my life was a long commute between my Mother and My God,but as I hurtle down the same roads,chasing the same sunsets and same, fractured sleep patterns,I begin to realise that I have been breaking free,veering off the well work path I have paced a hundred times,running so fast towards…