(1986)
I thought my heart was broken But now my heart is fixed I wished I had a cocktail And now the cocktail’s mixed. I’ve finally reached the age,
What is this fad collecting Exes… I am so glad we stayed friends. Oh yes he was over for the weekend… Now I know it’s nice to be nice. But banish the Ex to the fog of h…
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...
Oh how we laughed, Cried, Fought, Tried, To make sense of our lives shaped…
Where are you going? Eyes of blue. With your car crash of a life. Displayed for all the world to see… Bloated face and gut.
I will not ask for help. This virus has abandoned me high a… I locked down early. As a health professional I did no… Though I waited.
In the mists of time, Before the dawn, Your name was written with mine. And so we met. And became,
When mother died, I hid under her… I needed a fortress, a safe space. All that was available was the liv… My two year, younger sister joined… Two huddled lumps of, I’m not qui…
I’ll write some drunken poetry, It may not even rhyme. It doesn’t rhyme. It’s not even poetry. You soft lad!
I remember You, Your gutsy laugh, Your smile. The way you read the world, people… The jokes.
High platform shoes, Seventies mullets, Tight perm hairdos, Fadgies like bullets. Fadgies that harden,
I don’t want to hear that. What it was you said. No son of mine could be like that. I’d rather you were dead! Things we shouldn’t talk about.
I feel you, Know you are there, Pressing close, Behind me. Yes.
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,
Mankind has filled the darkness, With violence and death, Death and hate, Hate and fear. He bleeds the planet dry to light.