PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT

I've got a secret  that I feel like undressing and sharing
With you all,
Stripping liltingly from the bottom up
Then watching the fabric and weight of
Heavy words fold and fall
Languidly, silently
Stretching into something more,
By the time this game
Of Chinese whispers reaches
Your burning ears,
I would have turned you into something else
Moulded out of thin air
I'll stand back and watch the pounding flames
Of a wild fire
You won't recognise yourself in this light
My work will be done

BACK TO BACK

Don't wake me when you leave,
I never liked the back of you
Though it's the side I've seen the most
The backhanded comments
Slight of hand, slightly outlandish
Out of hand,
And all this time, it was you who
Blocked the sun,
Dimmed the light
The reason I couldn't breathe.

GREAT HOUSE

"We live in the same house, but I hardly see him. He's always busy. The most I ask him is if he wants anything to eat. At dinner we eat and he goes upstairs early to sleep. I stay downstairs by myself. At our age what do we have to talk about, what is left to say but laconic replies, when we have spoken day in day out for a life time. I feel as though we have used and reused all the words possible and now we are reduced to grunts and mumbles. It's difficult, when he does say something I get very angry and I say things he gets very angry. The day we become all about hand gestures or simple facial expressions as responses, what then? Silence that bounces off the walls, echoes, meddles, settles."

PERIPHERY

Everything feels like the edge,
And I pledge my allegiance
Spread my arms, like wings
And drop from above
The waves sing,
A song that
Carries me to the edge of
To the brim
To where the pavement ends
Where the sea bends
Where it crashes and curls
And hurls me to the edge of.

EXIST

Remember back when,
Way back then
No I don't, I feel you can't have both, both present and past
So every new day takes away a day from the last
Until there's nothing to reflect back on,
I reminisce and miss this very moment as it occurs
Because I know it will blur and fade away
And I will furiously dissect the planes of your face
Try to place you in particular time and day
Laugh at the way the tree leaves ruffled and the wind rushed
around us,
And the blue in the sky, the clouds that couldn't cushion my fall
But I can't piece it together right
Can't remember whether the jagged scar
Graced your cheek on the left or right
Tell me, how will I know I existed at all.