tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84986705977604800332024-03-13T05:23:07.446+00:00If you want culture, give it back....This blog comprises an up-to-date collection of all my bits and bobs - both poems and song lyrics. The selections date back as far as 2005. I hope you enjoy them. And, please, do comment!Robert Headhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797179465970675307noreply@blogger.comBlogger603125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498670597760480033.post-41343635382949360742021-06-21T11:52:00.003+01:002021-06-21T11:52:58.805+01:00Colours <div><span style="font-family: georgia;">When you stop caring about the people who care about you<br />then you’re getting purple from crimson anger <br />and the sadness of blue.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />When you can’t see the beauty in nature<br />or the value in a leaf<br />then all the green is gone from you;<br />so Eden sinks to grief.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Then you might as well be dead already<br />because your spirit has flown;<br />but there’s beauty even in grey.<br />There is majesty in stone.</span></div>Robert Headhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797179465970675307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498670597760480033.post-8458182779373721212021-06-21T11:51:00.000+01:002021-06-21T11:51:02.355+01:00Sometimes...<div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sometimes an atheist can inspire a believer to have faith.<br />Sometimes a believer can show a non-believer how to be good.<br />Sometimes a good man can do bad things.<br />Sometimes bad things can lead to fortuitous consequences.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Sometimes there is lightness in dark and darkness in light.<br />Sometimes darkness has a light of its own.<br />Sometimes I’m not sure if it’s the rainbow which has been crying<br />or the clouds.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Sometimes a good friend can be a great friend.<br />Sometimes a teacher can be a mentor.<br />Sometimes a lover’s candle can keep you warm and in light<br />for years after they are gone.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Sometimes you love so much it hurts.<br />Sometimes you laugh so hard there’s pain.<br />Sometimes you smile so wide<br />you think you might never smile again.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Sometimes mornings feel like treachery.<br />Sometimes the nights feel like deceit.<br />Sometimes life feels like the perfect purchase.<br />Sometimes you don’t need a receipt.</span></div>Robert Headhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797179465970675307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498670597760480033.post-59807500634563941262021-06-21T11:47:00.006+01:002021-06-21T11:47:37.370+01:00On Sadness<div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Don’t be afraid of sadness: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">it is your superpower.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">It puts days into your seconds;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">years condense to hours.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />It turns rain into a prism, </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">and on the other side is hope.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Don’t be afraid of sadness:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">it’s the thing that helps you cope.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sadness gives joy its colour;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">sadness shows pleasure the pain.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sadness shows you that after the heartbreak </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">you can smile again. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sadness tells you “this might kill you; </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">but, then again, it might not”. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sadness hugs you in its frozen embrace</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">so you can feel it when it’s hot.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">So don’t be afraid of sadness: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">sadness is your superpower. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sometimes people die years before their hearts stop;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">but let sadness in, and listen,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">and your garden will re-flower.</span></div>Robert Headhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797179465970675307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498670597760480033.post-11065990028476287632021-06-21T11:44:00.003+01:002021-06-21T11:44:36.825+01:00Strength<div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Knowledge gives strength to the arm.<br />But what is an arm without a hand?<br />And what is a hand without fingers?<br />And what are fingers if not<br />instruments of love?<br />To touch a lover’s palm, feather light<br />To hold a child’s hand, in their moment of worry<br />To tickle the piano keys, in a moment of free, idle fancy.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />What is strength without kindness?<br />And what is knowledge without wisdom?<br />And what is love without practice?<br />And what is warfare<br />without a reason to live?</span></div>Robert Headhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797179465970675307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498670597760480033.post-33212146750729279852021-06-21T11:42:00.001+01:002021-06-21T11:42:21.522+01:00everything <div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The nothing began to sparkle<br />and the nothing said divinity<br />and the divinity said light.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />BANG!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />And the void said infinity.<br />And the infinity said energy<br />and the energy said matter.<br />And the matter said stars.<br />Hydrogen, helium; so many atoms.<br />And on the 9 billionth day<br />the Divine said Here!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />And a sun began engorging <br />and the planets formed spheres.<br />And a long while later,<br />the Divine said life:<br />and the creatures said female!<br />And the female said wife.<br />And the female made male<br />and the two spawned children:<br />fish, invertebrates, reptiles - dinosaurs - HUMANS!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />And the Humans said God<br />and God said Love.<br />But the humans weren’t sure<br />if their hearts were big enough.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />So the spider said crawl<br />And the humans said shoes<br />And their voices said crush<br />And the spider’s blood oozed</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />And the Divine saw death<br />and the Divine’s heart sank<br />but the Divine saw love<br />and the Love was banked<br />so the Divine said forgive<br />And God’s heart bloomed</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />And the roses said careful<br />And the fruit said use<br />And the humans said multiply<br />And the Earth said tread light<br />and the darkness said always<br />but the sun said shine</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />And the humans’ hearts trembled <br />somewhere in between love<br />and a feeling of fear, and hatred and<br />other things, but</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />the Divine said remember <br />and the Ear said listen <br />And the Mouth said speak <br />But the Lips said glisten <br />And the Lips said kiss<br />And the Arms said embrace<br />And the Legs said walk - never chase<br />And the Spine said strength <br />And the Mind said wisdom<br />And the Heart said kindness<br />And the Blood said piston <br />And the Feet said hold<br />And the Hands said yield</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />And the Children said play <br />And the Father said field <br />And the Children said tree<br />And the Father said build</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />And the Father said mother<br />And the Mother said trust<br />And the Trust said devotion<br />And Devotion said lust<br />and pride and envy - be careful of these.<br />Go with love, my child,<br />be light as the breeze.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />And the Night said stars<br />and the Humans said YES!</span> </div><div>And the Divine watched Everything</div><div>And Everything was blessed.</div>Robert Headhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797179465970675307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498670597760480033.post-5528031070932749922020-10-14T11:02:00.001+01:002020-10-14T11:02:09.834+01:00Poison<div><span style="font-family: georgia;">You wake up feeling horny,<br />search for ‘Asian big white cock’<br />and wank off<br />to that poison</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />You injest that Youtube,<br />Netflix, daytime TV<br />poison</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />You pour yourself a drink<br />with ice, swirl it sound, add mixer,<br />tip it, neck that<br />poison</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />You think about the past:<br />failures, misgivings,<br />negative thoughts, numbness,<br />poison</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />You reach for the cupboard;<br />cakes, biscuits, crisps - one<br />pack, two packs, oops! eat<br />an apple.<br />Poison</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />You savour cigarettes,<br />cigarillos, cigars, tobacco,<br />sucking on that<br />poison</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />You long to fill yourself<br />heal yourself<br />feel yourself<br />but first<br />you gotta deal with<br />all that<br />poison.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />The wind continues to blow<br />the sun continues to shine<br />the world continues to turn<br />the birds continue to sing</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />and that poison continues to churn<br />and that pain continues to sting<br />and that fire can’t help but burn<br />and the waiting waits in the wings</span></div>Robert Headhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797179465970675307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498670597760480033.post-44241383743786623232020-08-31T10:57:00.004+01:002020-08-31T12:57:45.155+01:00Wedding Song<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px;">It is de day of my weddin<br /></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px;">an me fadder, im lookin nervous.<br /></span><span class="s2">An I wonder what it is on im mind.</span></div><div><span class="s2"><br /></span><span class="s2">‘You okay, Papi? You lookin nervous<br /></span><span class="s2">or sumtin. It’s not Reggie, is it?’</span></div><div><br /><span class="s2">Im smile and im say nah,</span><br /><span class="s2">dis day is blessed.</span><br /><span class="s2">Because you an ya man</span><br /><span class="s2">‘ave my blessins.</span></div><div><br /><span class="s2">And den I tink about</span><br /><span class="s2">all dem boys who nevah did,</span><br /><span class="s2">‘ow my daddy brought fya</span><br /><span class="s2">to dem yard.</span></div><div><br /><span class="s2">And I is curious.</span><br /><span class="s2">And I ask him.</span><br /><span class="s2">You remembah all dem boys -</span><br /><span class="s2">dem coulda beens -</span><br /><span class="s2">who you chased away?</span></div><div><br /><span class="s2">An im cut from his nerves</span><br /><span class="s2">an im smile at me, an say</span><br /><span class="s2">“Girl, I remembah....”</span></div><div><br /><span class="s2">*****</span></div><div><br /><span class="s2">De first guy mi Sunshine evah</span><br /><span class="s2">brought back to me,</span><br /><span class="s2">I took im to de garden,</span><br /><span class="s2">an I said, “Dis is me garden.</span><br /><span class="s2">Nice, innit?</span><br /><span class="s2">I consider it my place</span><br /><span class="s2">to keep the weeds</span><br /><span class="s2">in check.</span></div><div><br /><span class="s2">Weeds ave dere place in de gran scheme</span><br /><span class="s2">but I got me one special sunflower</span><br /><span class="s2">to protec.</span></div><div><br /><span class="s2">Tell me, me boy,</span><br /><span class="s2">what sort of plant are you?</span><br /><span class="s2">An I give im one o dem</span><br /><span class="s2">thoughtful stares.</span></div><div><span class="s2"><br /></span></div><div><span class="s2">Im nevah come back</span></div><div><span class="s2">after dat.</span></div><div><br /><span class="s2">An you told me,</span><br /><span class="s2">“Daddy, why you ave to</span><br /><span class="s2">make im scare!?</span><br /><span class="s2">Im run away</span><br /><span class="s2">an im nevah come back!”</span></div><div><br /><span class="s2">Good, I thought, back den.</span><br /><span class="s2">“Im not overstan’ im minerals;</span><br /><span class="s2">im run away from himself -</span><br /><span class="s2">not from me, or you.”</span><br /><span class="s2">No sweat.</span></div><div><br /><span class="s2">*****</span></div><div><br /><span class="s2">De secon’ man she evah brought back,</span><br /><span class="s2">im was older. </span></div><div><span class="s2"><br /></span></div><div><span class="s2">I pour us a drink</span><br /><span class="s2">and I ask im </span><br /><span class="s2">while we was sippin dat good</span><br /><span class="s2">dark rum with ice,</span><br /><span class="s2">“What are your intentions</span><br /><span class="s2">with my daughtah.”</span></div><div><br /><span class="s2">Im give me dat usual talk.</span><br /><span class="s2">Im no say dat </span><br /><span class="s2">me daughta can </span><br /><span class="s2">speak fe ‘erself</span><br /><span class="s2">Im say nuttin </span><br /><span class="s2">remotely real.</span></div><div><br /><span class="s2">So I nodded an I sipped and den</span><br /><span class="s2">I look at im very deeply,</span><br /><span class="s2">fixin im in my stare,</span><br /><span class="s2">an I say, coolly,</span></div><div><br /><span class="s2">“And what are your <b>intentions</b></span><br /><span class="s2">with my daughtah?”</span></div><div><br /><span class="s2">Im wriggle in im seat</span><br /><span class="s2">like a liccle worm</span><br /><span class="s2">on a hook</span></div><div><br /><span class="s2">an I kissed me teeth.</span><br /><span class="s2">I thought, run, boy,</span><br /><span class="s2">or come back</span><br /><span class="s2">when you is man enough</span><br /><span class="s2">to speak your truth</span><br /><span class="s2">and you knowin</span><br /><span class="s2">what you is sayin.</span></div><div><br /><span class="s2">An you said,</span><br /><span class="s2">“Daddy, he was not playin!</span><br /><span class="s2">I thought he was de one!”</span></div><div><br /><span class="s2">Ah, really? I thought.</span><br /><span class="s2">Is that why he run?</span></div><div><br /><span class="s2">*****</span></div><div><br /><span class="s2">I look at my Papi</span><br /><span class="s2">and I take his hand.</span><br /><span class="s2">“Papi, why you always used to</span><br /><span class="s2">scare my men away?</span><br /><span class="s2">An what about Reggie?”</span></div><div><br /><span class="s2">He looks me in the eye</span><br /><span class="s2">an he begins to speak.</span></div><div><br /><span class="s2">“I was not doin it fe myself;</span><br /><span class="s2">I was doin dem tings for you,</span><br /><span class="s2">all of it.</span></div><div><br /><span class="s2">Because it is my job</span><br /><span class="s2">to look out for you.</span><br /><span class="s2">I didn’t want you meetin some man</span><br /><span class="s2">who was like I was</span><br /><span class="s2">at dat age, back den.</span></div><div><br /><span class="s2">I know I ave to let you fly free.</span><br /><span class="s2">I nevah want to hold onto you</span><br /><span class="s2">cause I is scare.</span></div><div><br /><span class="s2">You gonna fly.</span><br /><span class="s2">And if you gonna fly,</span><br /><span class="s2">you gonna fly</span><br /><span class="s2">togeddah -</span><br /><span class="s2">forever.</span></div><div><br /><span class="s2">An you an you man gone ave</span><br /><span class="s2">the blessin of de sun,</span><br /><span class="s2">and de moon, and de stars,</span><br /><span class="s2">and de sky, and from</span><br /><span class="s2">de very bottom of my soul,</span><br /><span class="s2">my salts.</span></div><div><br /><span class="s2">You found im now.</span><br /><span class="s2">I can see im love you.</span></div><div><br /><span class="s2">You go fly, my pretty sweet darlin.</span><br /><span class="s2">Thru time an space an love.</span><br /><span class="s2">An you show your liccle birds</span><br /><span class="s2">how to touch de sky.”</span></div><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span></p>Robert Headhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797179465970675307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498670597760480033.post-76326232051157420192020-08-31T10:14:00.005+01:002020-09-13T22:06:42.235+01:00Drug<div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px;">You’d pull up home<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px;">around 5.30<br /></span><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">and my little heart<br /></span></span><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">would freeze.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I’d hear the car pull up</span></span><br /><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">and turn in to park.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I’d hear the sound</span></span><br /><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">of the tyres, then</span></span><br /><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">the handbrake,</span></span><br /><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">then the engine, turning off.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">After 10-15 seconds of silence</span></span><br /><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I’d hear the door open</span></span><br /><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">and slam shut</span></span><br /><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">and I’d listen to those</span></span><br /><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">ten or twenty footsteps</span></span><br /><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">leading around the car,</span></span><br /><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">across the pavement, and</span></span><br /><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">down the steps.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The key would turn</span></span><br /><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">in the door</span></span><br /><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">and the calm</span></span><br /><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">would fall to pieces.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The anxiety balloon</span></span><br /><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">that was filling in my body</span></span><br /><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">and my head</span></span><br /><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">would burst.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Now, for every tenner you give me,</span></span><br /><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">you might as well be handing me</span></span><br /><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">the drink, ciggies and drugs </span></span><br /><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">yourself.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It’s just a good thing</span></span><br /><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I’m not the same man</span></span><br /><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">as you.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It’s a good thing that</span></span><br /><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">one of us was listening</span></span><br /><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">to Bryan Ferry</span></span><br /><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">when he sang</span></span></div><div><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">that love</span></span><br /><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: georgia;">is the drug.</span></span></div><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="s2"></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="s2"></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="s2"></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="s2"></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="s2"></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="s2"></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="s2"></span></span></p>Robert Headhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797179465970675307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498670597760480033.post-80104789861161253032020-08-06T06:55:00.002+01:002020-08-06T06:55:17.478+01:00BlessingsKeep it bless, breddah<br />
Man’s got dis in the bag<br />
Bless the sunshine, bless good weather,<br />
Sendin blissins, fam.<br />
<br />
Ain’t no big ting;<br />
Don’t sweat yu back;<br />
Take it chill, don’t get mad.<br />
Don’t go on the attack.<br />
<br />
Keep it cool, keep it real:<br />
Keep your enemies very close.<br />
If you gotta do dis, keep it fya,<br />
but just a little dose.Robert Headhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797179465970675307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498670597760480033.post-42153522083254875342020-08-05T06:31:00.002+01:002020-08-06T05:41:59.387+01:00Witching Hour<div class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3px;">
<span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold;">I saw you on the dance floor</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">dancing by yourself,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">as if you the music was for you only,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">making love to your body.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I took a few slugs</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">bided my time and orbited you</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">like a satellite,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">hoping you’d see me as your moon.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">We grew closer to each other</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">with the gravity of feeling;</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">our feet were on the ground,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">our minds were on the ceiling.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">You started grinding on me</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and I caught your scent;</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I was like a tiger.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I wanted you in bed.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">We were circling so close now,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">your hair gently brushed my cheek.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">My lips were near your neck now;</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">you quivered as you spoke.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">You took me by the hand</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and we fled and hailed a taxi.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">You said, ‘Shakespeare Street, drive’</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and we were kissing in the back seat.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And my hand inched up your leg</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">to the peak of your desire;</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">you were a mountain,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I was the climber.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">We tumbled into the sheets</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and we rose </span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">inwards and outwards</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">like the moon-pulled sea.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">We slept for a while,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I awoke and from my wing</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I plucked a single feather,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">held it gentle in my hand.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I brushed your inner thigh,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">lightest touch, awakening you;</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">then I inhaled, descended, gulped deeply.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I kissed your body like the land.</span></div>
Robert Headhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797179465970675307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498670597760480033.post-23041481673707618692020-08-04T19:53:00.002+01:002020-08-04T19:53:46.252+01:00Off the Rails<div class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3px;">
<span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold;">Keep the wheels greased</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">keep the line clear</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">keep the good fuel in the engine</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and keep some spare.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Don’t burn it too quickly</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and keep your eyes facing front;</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">don’t look backwards or sideways</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">not even for a dare.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Watch the skies and see the mountains,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">keep the passengers’ bellies full.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Don’t give thought to mutinies</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">don’t panic when the cord is pulled.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Pay your journeymen well:</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">give them smokes and liquor.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Keep your cabin lady chill,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">don’t ever bicker.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Let your best man watch whilst you’re sleeping,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">glide smoothly open sail.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Stay aware but keep on dreaming.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Don’t go off the rails.</span></div>
Robert Headhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797179465970675307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498670597760480033.post-28685553091544343162020-08-03T22:00:00.001+01:002020-08-03T22:19:10.917+01:00Poor BoySoaking in shame,<br />
toking in vain,<br />
set in fear<br />
like a jelly, inane,<br />
convulsive and pallid,<br />
sweat dripping and<br />
the stench was blame.<br />
<br />
Fear aswirl all round my head,<br />
memories of lies and<br />
a piss-riden bed.<br />
Torn apart between people,<br />
feeling like a dog’s toy;<br />
looking up to broken men,<br />
O, what a poor boy.<br />
<br />
Cigarette ash trays<br />
and half-empty bottles;<br />
social club nights<br />
and passenger seats, full-throttle.<br />
Fights and sights and<br />
bellyaches.<br />
And ruptures so small<br />
that seemed like earthquakes.<br />
<br />
Bowls full of salted peanuts -<br />
“there’s twenty men’s urine on those”.<br />
Put on a smile,<br />
cheer up, come on: pose!<br />
Christmas with violence<br />
and Easters of binge.<br />
Always wanting to be a king,<br />
but I never was a prince.<br />
<br />
Circled by fretful women,<br />
their friends who were protectors.<br />
Then straight back in the lion’s cage:<br />
it’s feeding time, deflect this.<br />
Bullets that went skin deep,<br />
buckshot to the body.<br />
The neighbours’ cats would fight all night.<br />
I’d wake up feeling sorry.<br />
<br />
Baths of bubbly water<br />
and lying down, nose above the surface,<br />
or lying, back against the cold porcelain,<br />
putting a wet flannel upon my face<br />
and practising breathing -<br />
beneath the water, fanning out, my hair,<br />
and listening to the muffled sound of my voice.<br />
I’d hold my breath and count to ten<br />
then come up for air.<br />
<br />
School was a heavy sentence;<br />
some teachers’ smiles were golden.<br />
But others had mouths full of<br />
sneers and teeth like jagged grains of rice,<br />
their gaze would fix you frozen.<br />
Playground fights and fairground lights<br />
and rides that left you reeling<br />
and lying in the darkness<br />
staring at the ceiling.<br />
<br />
Count one breath, two breaths, three - ten.<br />
Breathing in the fleeting joy<br />
before the pain washed over again.<br />
O my, O my, what a poor, poor boy.Robert Headhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797179465970675307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498670597760480033.post-85530194268652352512020-08-03T07:01:00.002+01:002020-08-03T07:01:31.640+01:00My Truth<div class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3px;">
<span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold;">I’ve always been terrified of people,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">never knowing who to trust.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I’ve always seen the worst in people,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and thought in God we rust.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I’ve never really put myself out there</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">because it’s cold going out on a limb.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And when I inevitably got knocked back,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I never learned to take it on the chin.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">So I practised wearing masks and doing voices</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and I practised striking many a pose -</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">even though I don’t like the music of Madonna </span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and can’t stand that fucking awful Vogue.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">There are so many places I could have been to,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">so many friends I could have met along the way,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">so many lovers’ names I could’ve carved into my arms,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">so many beaches where I could’ve holidayed.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">But I chose to keep myself within a box then</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and curl myself away in all my hurt;</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">somehow I felt safer bumming in my socks when</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I should’ve been brave and wore that shirt.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Now I see the many years I wasted,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">squatting in a den that reeked of fear.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">All I have to do is pick myself up now,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">see the truth, dust the shoulders, face the years.</span></div>
Robert Headhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797179465970675307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498670597760480033.post-65798940411860557172020-07-14T21:08:00.001+01:002020-07-14T21:09:44.147+01:00Let Me Rock You<div class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3px;">
<span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold;">Maybe</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">you look at me</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and see I’m somehow</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">treating you like a lump of coal</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and trying to</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">push on you</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">as a vice,</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">like a tectonic plate,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">enveloping you</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and squeezing you</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">into a new shape.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Nah, that’s all you, baby.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">No pressure!</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Honestly, honestly -</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I’m not here to stress yer!</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I’ll just be a warm hand cradling you</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">putting you</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">where you need to be.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">There ain’t no scientist</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">running my show -</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I flunked geology.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">But baby, I think I’ve won</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">the geologist’s lottery.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And I don’t know what you are.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Perhaps you were born in a star</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">eons ago -</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">light years and light years afar.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">But your atoms, they excite me.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And I feel your electrons flow.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I can feel the crystals of your surface,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and sense the structure deep below.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Darling, just let me shine a light on you:</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">you’ll see</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">where you need to be.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I’ll rock your world,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I’ll ‘stack’ around</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">till 2073.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Oh, if only you’d let me,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">if only, the light -</span><br />
<span class="s2">so prismatic.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">We could set each other free.</span></div>
Robert Headhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797179465970675307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498670597760480033.post-44328181041424504342020-07-14T12:15:00.001+01:002020-07-14T17:01:51.397+01:00A Conversation with a StrangerI saw her come out of the<br />
Ilex with her dog.<br />
‘She’s very sweet,’ I said.<br />
‘Oh, I couldn’t be without her,’<br />
she said.<br />
‘She keeps me company.’<br />
<br />
‘Are you alone?’ I said,<br />
not realising that was a strange question.<br />
‘Yes,’ she said, ‘my<br />
husband died fourteen years ago.’<br />
<br />
‘It’s hard, isn’t it? I bet<br />
it doesn’t get any easier.<br />
My auntie was listening<br />
to an America song<br />
the other day:<br />
‘Ventura Highway’.<br />
She started to tear up.<br />
I held her hand.<br />
Her husband died in 2009.’<br />
<br />
And I said,<br />
‘I think that when someone you love dies<br />
a piece of them breaks off<br />
and it pierces your heart,<br />
and it burns, and it aches.<br />
But, after a while, the<br />
pain goes, and I imagine<br />
you’re at peace with the piece<br />
of them<br />
that’s in there.’<br />
<br />
‘I suppose so,’ she said.<br />
‘I imagine it like he’s on a boat,<br />
slipping farther and farther<br />
into the horizon.’<br />
<br />
‘I wonder what he’s doing<br />
on the top deck,’<br />
I said.<br />
‘I bet he would love you<br />
to join him there.’<br />
<br />
‘Yes,’ she said. ‘I bet.’<br />
<br />
‘But not yet,’ I said.<br />
<br />
‘Have a good day,’ she said,<br />
smiling widely<br />
as she walked away,<br />
past the gardens<br />
full of bright and beautiful flowers.<br />
<br />
‘Enjoy your life,’ I said,<br />
as I pushed my lady<br />
in her wheelchair<br />
up the path<br />
and into the trees.Robert Headhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797179465970675307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498670597760480033.post-69269553905422523482020-07-08T23:23:00.002+01:002020-07-09T00:15:59.493+01:00Up in SmokeYou take the brown paper<br />
and softly take a tuft<br />
of memories from the pack,<br />
placing them gently into the middle,<br />
right along that line.<br />
<br />
You take the paper in your hands<br />
and carefully roll it<br />
between your fingers<br />
feeling everything from the past,<br />
and it all feels fine.<br />
<br />
You roll the paper into a cylinder,<br />
lick one side and seal it down;<br />
you think of all your choices,<br />
those responsibilities you squandered,<br />
and you keep your head up<br />
so you won’t drown.<br />
<br />
And then you take the roll up<br />
to your lips,<br />
as you’re out there, vulnerable,<br />
in those cold shallows,<br />
and the taste of liquorice is on your tongue,<br />
and you start to feel mellow.<br />
<br />
You take the lighter from your pocket,<br />
click it then hold,<br />
and you’re careful not to burn<br />
your fingertip,<br />
as the filter starts to yellow.<br />
<br />
You light the end,<br />
inhale and feel that smoke<br />
pull down into your body,<br />
right to the very bottom,<br />
then back up to the surface,<br />
as out you blow.<br />
<br />
And your head starts to feel light,<br />
and the aching in your heart<br />
all makes sense,<br />
and the music in your ear<br />
is playing just for you<br />
in present tense.<br />
<br />
You take a drag, exhale.<br />
Inhale your new truth.<br />
Then one toke, two tokes<br />
three - now you’re floating<br />
up there<br />
on that roof.<br />
<br />
You’re getting high<br />
on your own supply<br />
and it’s good; and it’s bad.<br />
But you’re alive,<br />
and you ain’t broke.<br />
<br />
You finish it<br />
and you smile;<br />
you take the bad things<br />
and you see their lightness,<br />
and you send them up in smoke.Robert Headhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797179465970675307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498670597760480033.post-71418921905355840492020-07-08T21:43:00.002+01:002020-07-08T21:51:17.485+01:00My God<div class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3px;">
<span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold;">I saw a man in a robe</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">with a comb in his hair</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and his hands were open</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">like a book.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">There was a woman</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">sitting cross-legged outside</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">a supermarket,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">her ears plugged with phones,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and everyone passed her by,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">eyes sucked into their screens.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">She might as well have been alone</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and her friend was sitting slumped</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">beside her;</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">he was like a mudslide made flesh.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">His hands were all worn,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">fingertips nicotine yellow;</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">his shoes were a mess.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">The man sat between them both</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and calmly held out two hands;</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">he took one’s hand, then held the other’s.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">The three </span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">were like a wedding band.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And he removed a single earphone</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">from her ear and</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">placed it in his own;</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">the woman stirred.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">He looked her in the eye and</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">without a word</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">he smiled fully, without smiling,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and the noise that he heard</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">was an ugly concoction</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">of fear and pain,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and doubt, laced with thunder</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and pouring rain.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">There was howling and yowling,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and a mother was crying.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">A father shouted blearily,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">whilst his empty beer bottle</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">was drying.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And the man shook his head gently,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">as he looked into her eyes.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">He squeezed her hand a fraction tighter</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and he kissed her on the lips</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">softly as a feather falling</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">from a dove’s wings</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">which had dipped</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">from a highest elevation.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And now the slumped man’s slumber</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">broke, and he stared at</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">this interaction.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And the man turned his head</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and saw his satisfaction,</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">as he touched his face so gently,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and he brushed his arm so lightly.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And with lips so full and heavy</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">he kissed his mouth so slightly</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and a halo there did break out</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and above their heads did glow.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And he led them by the hands</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">into the streets below,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">far far below the city lights</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">to where children played in glass,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">where women sold their bodies,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">where men cried like rueful brass.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">They climbed a flight or two of stairs</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and into an empty room;</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">there was a mattress and one candle,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and the light did break the gloom;</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">their clothes were dropped onto the floor</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and in the light the shadows on the wall</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">did show the silhouetted three bodies</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">softly moving, and moving softly,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and the angels there did sing</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and their flesh was warm and motley;</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and the man, his robe now forsaken,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">did kiss these two so hauntingly</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">that they felt Heaven take them.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">He asked them honestly,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">‘Will you let me in? I can</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">see you’ve been a bad, bad girl.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I could kiss away those sins.’</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Their eyes were closed</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and their spirits free</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and they’d never felt such love,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">such pleasure and such peace,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and they whispered tremulously</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">‘My life, my love - my God’,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and their aching was released.</span></div>
Robert Headhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797179465970675307noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498670597760480033.post-69924884259499815572020-07-06T14:55:00.001+01:002020-07-06T14:56:36.930+01:00All I Want<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Life with you on paper</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">might appear boring</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">But that’s all that I want:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">to sit in with a good film</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">every night,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">or visit a local haunt;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">or skim stones</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">on the water’s edge,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">as the froth breaks with the sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Seven, eight – </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">nine skips!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Those stones</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">are you and me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">And to take the kids to school</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">would be the greatest pleasure –</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">then all that time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><a dir="ltr" href="outlook-data-detector://0" style="color: #0078d7;" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">from 9-3:</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">we’d get in</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">plenty of leisure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">We could sit and talk</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">over coffee and cake,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">or read a book,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">see a friend,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">spend a token.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Or sit and dream,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">or start to scheme</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">to put some plans in motion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Or walk the dog,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">through rain or fog,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">by field, by canal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">or by ocean.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Yes life with you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">on paper</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">might seem boring;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">but the fires we’d make</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">between the sheets -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">between walking and talking,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">and snoring....</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">I’d leave you out a gas light burning,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">it would see you safe forever</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">through even the darkest night.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">I could hold you</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">like a promise.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">You could wear me</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">like the weather.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">We could wake up</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">to the light.</span></div>
Robert Headhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797179465970675307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498670597760480033.post-30832379448652201912020-07-06T00:25:00.004+01:002020-07-06T00:32:00.526+01:00The Boy in the Bubble III’ve had the art<br />
of self-deprecation<br />
down to a tee;<br />
I’d yell at all the old men<br />
on the green.<br />
That’s self-sabotage:<br />
there’s no playing golf<br />
with me.<br />
<br />
Not even would I try it,<br />
even out of curiosity.<br />
But that’s okay,<br />
no probs,<br />
fine by me.<br />
<br />
In the hand of every golfer<br />
is a nine iron<br />
and in mine a beater’s club -<br />
don’t ask me<br />
to your private bar,<br />
you elitist, racist thugs.<br />
<br />
But I could have met a kind man;<br />
he may have offered me<br />
a job.<br />
<br />
He would have invited me over,<br />
with his wife and kids,<br />
to Ibiza -<br />
forgo the private yacht.<br />
<br />
But I’m the Master<br />
of depriving myself.<br />
I’m the Captain of None.<br />
I’ve been out here<br />
in the cold so long<br />
I barely recognise<br />
the sun.<br />
<br />
I’m the Champion<br />
of lonely entitlement;<br />
I’ve been in love<br />
with my own struggle.<br />
<br />
I should set a reminder:<br />
there ain’t none blinder<br />
than the boy<br />
in the bubble.Robert Headhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797179465970675307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498670597760480033.post-21525203725650813442020-07-05T11:35:00.003+01:002020-07-07T00:13:11.395+01:00All Good Things...<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-9076733403560864411" itemprop="articleBody" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15.84000015258789px; line-height: 1.3; position: relative; width: 355px;">
<div class="p1" style="font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3px;">
<span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold;">I see you standing there,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">the stunning girl with the wonderful face,</span><br />
<span class="s2">(smile full of soul and warmest grace)</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">the shapely body,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">the longest sleekest legs,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and the breasts </span><br />
<span class="s2">which take the sun’s breath away,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and I wonder what you think of me</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">as you return my gaze -</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">am I a horny dog to you?</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">You seem hardly amazed.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">But if you must know</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I imagine your father holding you as a new-born</span><br />
and I see him welling up with tears of joy</div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">at the majesty of this babe</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">trembling fearfully, fretfully silent</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">covering you like an angel within his wings</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">although he is just a man,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and at times feels less than.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And I see you as a child</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">being walked to school,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">holding his hand,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and he’s so in love with you,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and you’re his everything.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And then suddenly you’re almost grown</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and all the boys hold you in their mind</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">although not with the cleanest</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">of intentions,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and he’s not gonna let you go.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And I can see you in the future.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">You are still beautiful.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Time has been good to you,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">although all things must go south.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">But time is your friend:</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">don’t fight it -</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">hold its hand.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Just like I can imagine holding yours</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">until your dying day.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And yes, I can also imagine</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">setting your inner animal loose</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">between the sheets</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">as you snap at me like a wolf,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">at my fleece.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">But I’m only a man.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I’m nothing more.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I just want peace.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I’m not your father.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">No one could ever love you</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">quite like him.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">But I could love you</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">like no other.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I’ll forgive your every sin.</span><br />
<span class="s2"><br /></span>
<span class="s2">And just so you know,</span><br />
<span class="s2">I wouldn’t put all the pain</span><br />
<span class="s2">of my past on you,</span><br />
I made that mistake before.<br />
That stuff’s my stash, it’s good shit;<br />
it gets me pretty high.<br />
The last one I took down with me,<br />
I charged like a fucking boar, a beast;<br />
but for the next girl<br />
I’ll touch the sky.<br />
<span class="s2"></span><br />
Did I already mention my fleece?</div>
<div class="p3" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">But if you’re taken,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">don’t be mistaken:</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">my little heart ain’t breakin’.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I’m not quaking:</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I’m glad someone loves you</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and you in turn love them.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I just hope they’re giving you</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">all their best - giving you the things</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">they love the most</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">about themselves,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">their deepest shades of green and gold,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and all the treasures with which</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">they’re blessed.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And if they’re not,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">you should put them</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">to the test.</span><br />
<span class="s2"><br /></span>
<span class="s2">Know I’m always here -</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">just wanting to show another</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">their loveliest reflection.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">But for now?</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">For now I need some rest</span></div>
</div>
Robert Headhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797179465970675307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498670597760480033.post-68384962504945332392020-07-04T17:47:00.005+01:002020-07-04T17:47:53.511+01:00You Are Golden<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Recently</span></span><br />
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have found myself digging</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">through the wonders</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">of the treasure box</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">of myself;</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">where golden coins from aeons gone</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">glint besides rubies and opals</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">that shine like the sun.</span></span></div>
<div class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Just be careful not to polish</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the iron pyrites -</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">that’s fool’s gold to some;</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">that’s no tonic for good health.</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All those dregs of your experience</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">you’re dredging</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">will make a paltry sum.</span></span></div>
<div class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I’ve done that too many a time -</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I looked into the crystal ball</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and I saw a future devoid of light,</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">but in the darkness of my past</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">there were stars shining up</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">from the very bottom,</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">like an upside down sky.</span></span></div>
<div class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And these things appear dangerous,</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">these things appear hot -</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">but that’s a cold game this illusion plays,</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">because really they’re not.</span></span></div>
<div class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Not until you’ve dug</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to the very bottom</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">of your soul</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">will you ever realise</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">that what glitters</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">is sometimes</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">even better than gold</span></span></div>
<div class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and if you’re lucky -</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and you’re not lonely -</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">then one day you may find</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">that another sun will rise with you;</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">be good to her -</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">see her treasures every day.</span></span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And, for goodness sake, be kind.</span></span></div>
Robert Headhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797179465970675307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498670597760480033.post-31164262133529614512020-06-17T22:15:00.002+01:002020-06-17T22:19:20.373+01:00Mother<div class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3px;">
<span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold;">You were like a little bird</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and you lived inside your bed,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and the sheet was yellowed under your feet</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and I wondered if you were dead.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">You rarely made me breakfast</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">but you sometimes made me lunch.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I’d no idea what depression was</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">but I guess I had a hunch.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">From a young age I’d hated him</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">for how he spoke to you, I cried</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and tried to get between,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I wanted to rescue you.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And yet you’d never let things go</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and that really made me sad;</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I guess it made me angry,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and I sympathised with dad.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">He’d sometimes pick you up from work</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and I’d be next to him.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">If you were late getting out, he’d wait</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">spot you, then drive off in a spin.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And he’d call you fucking useless</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and he’d call you nasty cunt</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and I heard he told the girls you were a dog,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">which confused them - they didn’t have one.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">As a girl you were a beauty;</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">you could have been a model.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Dad was nineteen when he met you,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">you sixteen - it was a doddle.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">You were a stunning young mother,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">with your eyes open wide.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And dad was good to you,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">until the day your father died.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Then your blue sky turned thunderous</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and your protector turned to captor.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And your flat became a prison,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and your bruises were redacted.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And the family kept secrets</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And you were too scared to tell,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">for you’d probably have gotten the blame,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">you were terrified of him as well.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And so you put up with his shit,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and his lack of passion became the norm.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And the flies that dogged your window</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">now had turned into a swarm.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">You lost so many teeth;</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">you lost so much weight too.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Your stomach was in pieces,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">you struggled on the loo.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And though for so long I blamed you</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">for preserving me in that mess,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I know you loved us deeply</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and I see you tried your best.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I learned so much from you,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and so did my own wife.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I learned that love’s not a weapon -</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">not something to weigh upon another.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">it takes courage to put down the knife;</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">it takes more strength to lift your lover.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And here’s the simple twist of fate:</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">if your heart’s true, then </span><br />
<span class="s2">it’s never too late.</span></div>
Robert Headhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797179465970675307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498670597760480033.post-6917061111677677042020-06-17T07:02:00.004+01:002020-06-17T23:12:18.032+01:00Kathleen/Woodingdean<div class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3px;">
<span style="font-size: 17px;">You’d pick me up from school</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
every Friday </div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and we’d walk all the way</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">along the backtracks</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">past the horses and brambles and nettles</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">to Woodingdean.</span><br />
<span class="s2"><br /></span>
<span class="s2">Friday evenings</span><br />
<span class="s2">we’d go to Vesuvios</span><br />
<span class="s2">and have dinner by Tony -</span><br />
you, egg salad; me two sausages and chips -<br />
the BEST chips -<br />
and ice cream drizzled in cream.<br />
Auntie waitressed there,<br />
and it had a timeless sense;<br />
‘Take My Breath Away’ would play;<br />
it had an 80s bent.</div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">On Saturdays we’d get the bus into town</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">to see your sister. You’d treat me</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">to nuggets and chips in Maccy Ds,</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">the toy of course</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">always the best bit.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And then a small ice cream each -</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">no Flake.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Your sister’s house was a bit old</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and dingy,</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and smelled of old grease.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Her partner would watch old westerns</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">or Carry On films</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">whilst I would read</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">The National Enquirer -</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">what a strange situation!</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Then we’d go back to yours</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">on the bus, and I’d whisper in your ear</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">just loud enough for the people behind to hear,</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">‘Did you get my CDs?’</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">That was code for ‘chocolate desserts’</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">with the delicious cream on top</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">always to be eaten first,</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">but the people behind didn’t know that!</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I loved those bus rides.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I loved your garden.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I loved the fields across from your house</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">with their long grass.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Sometimes we’d venture into the downs</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and I’d count the burned-out cars.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Then one day, you had to leave;</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">you were being terrorised by young children</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">who egged your house, broke</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">your window, hurled abuse.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">The Beast of Woodingdean, with whom</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">nobody would fuck, was now seen</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">as a lonely old dragon</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">who was down on her luck.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">But not to me.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">You were a fierce lady</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">who loved her grandson - fed him</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">burned pizza and overcooked homemade chips,</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and your house was like a relic -</span><br />
<span class="s2">I mean, who the hell still had a larder!?</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">You have mellowed through the years</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and I take great pleasure</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">in showing you the music I love</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and the photos of the great-grandchildren you adore.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Your husband died in 1979,</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">but now you talk to Les every day.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I just hope you live out your days now</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">in peace - I hope it stays that way.</span></div>
Robert Headhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797179465970675307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498670597760480033.post-71752376720704429132020-06-17T07:02:00.000+01:002020-06-17T13:58:31.530+01:00Yvonne/Bevendean<div class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3px;">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">You were my sanctuary</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">in the storm of my youth;</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">my mum’s sanctuary</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">in the storm of her marriage.</span></div>
<div class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">You would send me off to school</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">with luncheon meat sandwiches</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and a small box of teeny smarties.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I would save up all the blue ones</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and give them to my friend</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">who had ADHD,</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">curious to see if they’d send him off.</span></div>
<div class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I loved watching Mortal Kombat</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">on Fox Kids, and Goosebumps.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I would lie on your floor</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and pencil endlessly</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">sketches of Jax,</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">my favourite character,</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">with his black skin, thick cool</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">black sunglasses, and metal arms.</span></div>
<div class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Your husband would show me</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">catwalk women on Men and Motors</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and make me toast triangles</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">with lots of butter</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and strawberry jam,</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and say, ‘If you don’t eat it</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">you’ll wear it!’ or</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">‘I’ll shut your fingers in the door...’</span></div>
<div class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">It was a place to escape the</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">constant misery of home,</span><br />
the constant sowing of bad seeds.</div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Like a hotel in the desert -</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Hotel California, perhaps?</span><br />
Maybe we felt we could never leave.</div>
<div class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Is that why now, </span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">at 31, I’m back here again?</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Escaping the storm that I have made?</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Only, Ian is long since gone.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">You are still a lion,</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">only slower and not so much</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">in your prime.</span></div>
<div class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">The only difference is</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I can see clearly now</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">what was oblivious to me</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">as a child - what was only</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">a fuggy swirl</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">of intoxicated feelings.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">So I guess it’s time</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">to get on healing.</span></div>
Robert Headhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797179465970675307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498670597760480033.post-92133283245936640002020-06-15T11:58:00.002+01:002020-06-15T21:35:41.115+01:00Nana<div class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3px;">
<span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold;">Nana, I remember your house.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I’d enter through that wooden door,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">through rainbow beads, and smell </span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">the cat food you kept in your larder,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">on the left.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And above the stove</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">which smelled of dry heat</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">there was a tray about</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">footprints, and how</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">God was carrying you,</span><br />
<span class="s2">and that plate that read,</span><br />
<span class="s2">and I’m paraphrasing,</span><br />
<span class="s2">‘When mum and dad say no,</span><br />
<span class="s2">ask Nana’.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">Your sofas were green</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and a small colour TV</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">rested in the unit in the corner,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">by the west-facing window</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">overlooking the racecourse</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">where we witnessed </span><br />
<span class="s2">the best sunsets</span>.</div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And you had a kind of fabric mosaic</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">picture of a racehorse,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and I remember your beautiful cats.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And the stairs up to your</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">neat little room, the spare room</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">so mysterious to me</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and the bathroom,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">which smelled of air freshener -</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">maybe lilies - and the dolly</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">toilet roll holder in her hanging dress.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And I remember after you died</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">having dreams about you</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">where you were sleeping on mum and dad’s</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">green sofa, and your head</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">was stuck down behind the cushions,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">or you had inexplicably </span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">come back from the dead.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And it was fine.</span></div>
<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I miss you. I miss seeing you walk out</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">mum and dad’s front door, so tiny,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">only four feet eight, your curly white hair,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">your wooden stick supporting you,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">slightly arthritic fingers, skin so fine</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and so wrinkled, your knuckles</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">so thin and so pronounced.</span></div>
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<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">I wish I could see your house again,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">although it’s been occupied since 2005,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">to see your garden, where once</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">rhubarb and beans and cabbage grew,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">your tiny shed and the ramshackle pile</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">of sticks behind, full of spiders</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">and lizards. And you’d bring me out a cup of tea, </span><br />
<span class="s2">in small china - so sweet and good.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And the sweetie tin, oh</span><br />
<span class="s2">the sweetie tin.</span></div>
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<span class="s2"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">You’d bend over, and say,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">go on, take one. So I’d take my time,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">then choose a chocolate-lime. Then you’d say,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">take another - a butter fudge, maybe?</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And then you’d smile and say,</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">take three, a third - have one on me.</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">And I’d spend the longest time</span></div>
<div class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s2">looking through the fruit bon-bons</span></div>
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<span class="s2">before inevitably choosing raspberry.</span></div>
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