A placebo
Telling me
All is well
Feeling like
A strong drug
Really just
A sugar pill
Taking edge off
Daily drain
Duty doldrums
Hours mundane
Out of place
A smiling face
In a sea of
Working grey
Filling me
With signs
Wonders
Whispering
A brave poet
Where I live
Where I work
How I speak
Free time perks
How much time
On my hands
How I went
Travelling lands
Who my friends
Like to be
What I drink
Films I see
How I look
What I wear
Whether lippie
Or some flares
Punch drunk
Over jab
Wiping tables
Keeping tabs
All I want
Is to be
In love
With you
A mountain spring
Cool and clear
Need to live
The more I have
The more I give
Keeping me
Away from edge
Steadying me
Dizzy head
Giving out
Above and beneath
The surface
Giving beauty and life
To everything
To me, I'll take it
You keep me
On the straight
And narrow
You hold me
On the bends
Your smile and feet
Go fore me always
All the ways to
Land's end
Every morning leaving
On time to the skip
Of my feet
Pulling away cartoon TV
Standing six feet away
Millenia in social decree
Lemon sherbet bomb
Milk shakes
Redskins
Sending my mind in a spin
Looking through me
Invisible
Grimace and grin
Leaving words behind
In the dust
Words never heard before
Something about
Let's be friends
Bubble O Bill
Gaytime
Icy pole
Chasing up and down
Stares worlds unknown
Giggle till your sides
Hurt eyes leaving
Tummy aches
Green chip fries
Tears down cheeks
She makes me laugh
No matter what she says
Somehow if my cool I keep
Sticking around
Can't shake me
Holding my breath while
The big girls
Rate me
Whether awake or asleep
A parallel reality
Woven from memory
Laced with dreams
Evades my spaces
Empty rooms
With music
On repeat
Behind closed eyes
Her face reminds me
Promises only keep
When stored safely
Entertaining
All kinds of things
Foreseeable future
Down by the sea
Takes my willing heart
On much needed holiday
While planting seeds
To grow all around me
A multiverse grows
Out and beyond
Over and within
Unexplainable
To the naked eye
One only sees a light
A smile a look
A gracious word or two
The only way I know
How to love you
Is in spacious place
Wide open spaces
Long learnings ago
I hoped for one
To explore the cavern
Find the open door
My mind is endlessly
Travelling back forth
But pinpoints perfectly
On one such as yourself
'Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate,
That Time will come and take my love away.
This thought is as a death, which cannot choose
But weep to have that which it fears to lose'
~ Shakespeare Sonnet 64
I dedicate my writings
Dear Fanny Cochrane Smith
I lived upon her land
Learned what gratitude is
It healed my very wounded
Heart, spirit, mind
So I wish to return
To all of her kind
~written on kunanyi lutruwita / Mt Wellington Tasmania
Is clear there's something
Between us
That which keeps us apart
Holds us together
Rather than deter
It makes me want
You more
The image I portray
Is simply a gentle fear
That if it were to disappear
Our love would fade away
