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So Many
I told myself, again and again, that you weren’t like him. I looked at your face so long, with such suspicion, until it became his, but I told myself, again and again, that I was crazy. I told myself, I was sabotaging. I told myself, I was paranoid. I told myself, I was childish. I…
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Gone Fishing
Thirty five minutes, since I went mad, again, isolated, by government order, and by circumstance. Oh, God, I tried not to let loneliness fall in love with me, but she sits at my front door, locked out, but still sneaking in. She never brings flowers, just reminders, of all the promises I believed, and all…
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Blinded By The Light
I used to dream about the sea, waiting for the waves to wash my days away, but I’m too tired to dream, I close my eyes, and there is nothing. They say I’m bleak, as if the world hasn’t grown slower, and lost its colour, as I grew taller. Maybe I’ve been bleak, for so…
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Star Watching
The earth is still tonight. Gradient sky, so sweet and shy above me, so many shades of blue, dusky and delicate, showing off the stars I never see, because air pollution wants all the attention, but the earth is still tonight, and the stars are here to visit, I remember when I stood by your…
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Halloween Hell
You held me close, holding a halloween mask to your face, hoping your costumed bravery would not betray you, on the sofa, suffering from a racing heart, racy thoughts, to distract you from the dark screen, dark dreams. Suffering for me, your desensitised darling, Halloween hell, that lasts all year, but lives in heaven. You…