(2013)
Forgiveness? Not on your life. My life was stolen from me. For what?
If I could steal you out of time, there would be no place to hide. I would finish what was started when you left me here to die. It’s not vengeance which I seek,
There’s a fearsome beast within, huddled tense and waiting, in the furthest corner of this brittle heart. It lies alert to any signal
This trembling grief is for a long lost soul, a young, guileless child I once knew as me. I truly believed
Way up there on that hill of yours; that most hard-won ivory tower. Hiding there behind your perfect guise
There’s a furious raging mob out beyond the temple walls; howling with a lust for murder of the next contender for their cr… It's more to do with feral instinc…
Who’s gonna throw my pitiful ashes into the holy mother Ganges? Who’s gonna hold it as their sacre… Who’s gonna know the need for this… I’ve seen so many nameless shadows
I gaze into the bleakness of the e… engulfed by a sense of futility an… I am like the man who keeps fishin… though he knows the river is spent… I cast my line into the milky pool…
My father is dead, still he speaks through me; “Don’t say anything....OR ELSE!… There was plenty of “OR ELSE!” to go around.
Your end? My end? Where the hell’s the middle? You say this. I say that.
Who of you will follow where I’m bound to go? None that I can see. None that I can name. No-one that I know.
Weep for the fallen warriors. Weep for those souls considered collateral damage. Weep for the profiteers. Weep for the deserters.
My bucket had a hole in it. I kept trying to fill it. The more I tried, the more flowed down the drain. It wasn’t for lack of what was nee…
These words, gently laid upon this page, amount to my sincere prayer they reach within you, and touch your secret self,
Cast adrift in an unknown sea. By my pride. Alone Missing you,