Darkness

Where we all begin

Before the Sun

Comes creeping in

To warm the fibre

Of our being

A single breath

A straining sapling

We fight through winters

Storms

And rain

Standing tall

Baring pain

Splinters bite

Ricochet

We ground ourselves

We seize the day

Firmly planted

Barely moved

The tug begins

Within our roots

The tug to fight

The tug to flee

To live our lives

To b...

I lost you

Amongst

The

Fray

As

Voices

Rico

Chet

Bombaring

My skull

Your

Screams

Were

All

Null

I could

Never

Have kept

Them

At bay...

You are bright and joyous

Warm and Fragrant

Home

When I dream of you

You are my protector

You are my guide

My companion

Always

When I speak of you

I speak of you fondly

Always

When I speak of you

You become alive...

Once upon a time

A cliche beginning

Simply children

Always listening

Glistening fables

Babbling brooks

All of our knowledge

Bound within books

We’d frolick through life

A flock of sheep

Innocent nature

Wrapped in cotton fleece

Gnashing teeth

Held at bay

Till nightfall spread

At close of day

Golden eye

That kept us safe

Had gone to sleep

So we’d escape

Down winding roads

Th...

Babbling brooks

Babbling babes

We fumbled where the fishes played

From dawn until the end of day

Back when life was just a game

Boggy creeks

Bogging babes

We rolled in mud

Down hills

In hay

We messed our hair up

Then we laid

To dry in the sun

Then hide in the shade

Back when mammy would shout and say

Your dinners ready

Come in from play

Back when life was just a game

Restless rive...

Beyond the map,

Where legends dwell,

I ventured into the unknown.

Unaware of how long I had travelled

Or how long I had left to go.

Beaten by the elements

Torn

Tired

Grown

I persevered

I walked alone

Further into the unknown

I made some friends along the way

I left them long ago

I knew that something better called me

Further into the unknown

I brought some things with me

Passed...

Find me down the garden path

Wasting my years away

Memories bleed through trellises

Misplaced love finds its way

My secret garden is just a place where only I can stay

Only I have the power to leave

But covered now, in autumn leaves

Weighed down by winter’s snow

The comfort of the cold, dead ground draws me back so

I scour round the labyrinth

Hoping to find that secret gate

That will...

Say it with me

It is not easy to just leave

Not everyone has the same freedoms as me

Not everyone chose to live a life and not be free

Just me

I put myself in this position

Crippled under self submission

Forced to drag my aching

Corpse through all of this broken glass

These shattered memories I thought were made to last

I chose to see the best version of you

To suffocate the scream...

The warm embrace

of golden hour

falls

upon

the meadow.

I don’t enjoy

watching her leave

as I know exactly

what it means…

Back to monotony,

the grind,

the pain staking labour

that just makes Sunday

so much sweeter

and yet

so

bitter.

She is known

for being

a day of rest

and a day

so serene

that it lifts

all of

that

pain

from your chest. I cannot

count

the number of times

that I ha...

I cannot look in mirrors, I’d turn myself to stone.

I find it’s rather poignant,

though,

to see what is your own.

You glide above the clouds,

I’m lurking underneath.

No one ever

told me that

My heroes had

sharp teeth.

I’ve seen so much down here

that would make

a mother

cry..

I’ve shown so many people

the realities

of your

lies.

It’s hard to save them

all at

once…

I try

to put

T...