Calling me to the edge of the world That woman’s whisper “Come find me” And I dropped everything To search for her And so here I am At the edge of the world I could not find her Still she calls to me “Come find me” But I have nowhere left to look A flickerContinue reading “Calling Me”
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A Blooming Rose
A blooming rose Sits on my windowsill Watering can in hand I feed it well It opens to me A beautiful red A damning colour Beauty can be bad A watereed rose A drowned wife Such an event Enraged me so That when I next saw A blooming rose Waiting on my sill I leftContinue reading “A Blooming Rose”
Grey
The forces of evil and malcontent were working against me, And it brought down the most thunderous of clouds upon my spirit. It made me want to cry, And yet, do nothing of the sort. In the end I simply sat at my grey window, In my grey room, Looking up at the grey sky. Continue reading “Grey”
Boogeyman
Look out, look out For the boogeyman’s about Eating children Robbing graves Stalking nightmares Hiding in caves We don’t know where he came from We don’t know where he’ll go But if he arrives in your town You very soon will know So if your kids go missing And there’s mischief all about You mayContinue reading “Boogeyman”
Let’s go to heaven
Let’s go to heaven And dance amongst the stars We can pirouette on Saturn Or dance a tango on Mars We fox-trotted on Pluto Under the cool, distant Sun Ice under our feet A path through Kuiper to run
Demons live inside my head
Demons live inside my head And tell me what to do The order that they gave in time Was to dispose of you The demons living in my head They speak in tongues unknown They snuck inside my brain one day And made themselves at home The demons hiding in my head They have anContinue reading “Demons live inside my head”
Misty Rains
I love the Misty rains of October Any remnants of summer blown over By orange leaves and crinkled twigs With jams made from fallen plums and figs The autumnal colour of decay Always take my breath away When Persephone starts her time below The world above begins to glow