I would know you in complete darkness
By the way you draw breath
And your feet strike the earth.
I would recognise you in insanity,
All other faces wiped from my memory
I could know you even in madness.
I would know your face masked,
In disguise, in shadow
I could know you by touch alone.
I could find you in another lifetime,
Another universe,
In different bodies, in different times.
I woul...
He’d promised to help her
Reunite with her Pan
When she severed their love
In that desolate land
Their adventures together
Had been trying and bleak
But she was unstoppable
When the dead she did seek
So down to the depths
No chance to turn back
Even waiting for death
No courage they lacked
Two young survivors
Their hearts ripped apart
Left their daemons behind
To sail into the dark
Bu...
I shall remember your suffering
Benjamin Pointer.
I never saw your face
But I heard your
Suffering.
I heard the running feet.
The wheels of the
Cardiac monitor
The urgency.
I went to a room and cried
Ten minutes before
You died. I felt very small.
The frustration
Of the staff nurse
Returning to the ward.
The casual remarks
That you had died.
I remember your death.
(This poem was written ...
I used to be so afraid of this place.
The ghostly trunks of the Japanese Birch, shimmering in the sun like holograms trying to deceive me. These angels of death standing straight up from the earth, their too-pale bodies scarred sporadically with dark, jagged rings.
Their skeletal limbs, far above in the sky, harbouring serrated leaves that drop in silence and utter no sound under foot. The sof...
No holy water could free me,
From this demon that haunts my mind
He sticks with me past sun and moon
No reverie I can hope to find.
His tendrils curling through my brain,
To remind me of what I’ve done
He blackens all that my life once was
And curses each ray of sun.
Sometimes I’ll forget he’s there
And life can feel normal again
But I’ll feel him creeping steadily in
Ready to remind me of the...
The space between stars is how you felt before you were born. Do you remember it?
It was a vast emptiness of nothing,
There was no light or dark,
No happy or sad.
You didn’t feel alone or scared,
but nor were you excited or anxious.
You had no conscience to make thoughts,
to appreciate or to fear,
No memories or emotions,
but it wasn’t desolate or bleak.
This is how the space between stars f...
The monitor flatlined, and for a few moments everyone fell silent.
Although I knew this was coming, I couldn’t help the flood of relief and joy that burned through my veins.
Excitement like strong liquor scorching my throat and dizzying my veins.
I wanted to scream; I wanted to drop to my knees and praise every Lord in the skies.
But the sobbing couple just meters away from me kept me from...
You won’t find Her in the thunder,
or in the foaming of a violent sea,
You won’t see Her in the hurricanes,
or the aftermath’s debris.
You won’t hear Her in the howling winds,
or the creeking of a breaking branch,
You won’t notice Her in the driving hail,
or in the drumming of an avalanche.
You’ll sense Her building slowly,
creeping like darkening clouds,
Like the anxious, humid, coming storm,...
