Grief is like a deep pool you fall into from time to time. One moment you are walking along life’s weary path and the next you are drowning. Eye achingly broken, flogged by tears and w...

Christmas may be merry, Or then it may be not. It may be filled with loss and mis… People who’re not there and wishin… They were.

For Christmas this year, I shall paint my fat face! I can do that you know. A clown, A queen,

I don’t care, What you say. Your words mean nothing, Any more. You try to say,

Watch you go, Cold as snow, Salt and blood. Graved in stone, Old friends gone,

Oh how we laughed, Cried, Fought, Tried, To make sense of our lives shaped…

How easily he cries, these days, With thoughts of you. He lies. These days,

You cannot live your life in fear! Each moment missed as looking here… You watch your step; diet; drinkin… Mind your manners; Ps and Qs. Wakeful worry of what might or mig…

Now is the time to leave the past… With more days done than are left… Burdened grief like Sysyphus’ sto… Mind parades of all those gone. We owe it to them to give,

What if I won’t be found? As the world turns white. As the winds turn cold. As a young gay man Turns grey and old.