tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77318322889367400182024-02-08T01:21:36.316+13:00Latte JunkieUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger905125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731832288936740018.post-66423546679655216462020-02-28T19:30:00.001+13:002020-02-28T19:30:31.898+13:00Rearview MirrorChecking my blind spot<div>Three letters, three numbers</div><div>Reflected in the mirror</div><div>Automatic reversal</div><div>Blindsided by the rush</div><div>Of memories linked to the car behind me. </div><div>I wondered, as the lights changed,</div><div>How many trips to a beach they'd have, to solve a week's problems,</div><div>How many times they'd sing along to songs, or make new ones up to fill the silence</div><div>How many words would spill out in the middle of the night to be caught in the aging upholstery,</div><div>How many eyes would look out the back window to trace the clouds,</div><div>Catching glimpses of new worlds and magical spaces between clouds, trees and conversations.</div><div>How many life changing epiphanies would be had in the many kilometres they'll drive until they recognise the license plate in their rearview mirror?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731832288936740018.post-813616956571544522019-01-03T11:59:00.001+13:002019-01-03T11:59:37.259+13:00Gilded Heart<p dir="ltr"><b>Gilded Heart</b><br><br></p>
<p dir="ltr">You asked me what words are burnt into my skin,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Invisible tattoos inked by cruelty, masked in kindness and love -</p>
<p dir="ltr">Of the expectations of an airbrushed compassion,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Filtered by the lens of a camera held by those who are not in my heart</p>
<p dir="ltr">By others who have never felt its beat, the strength of my hugs nor the softness of my hands as I hold truths, dreams and fears of those who have dared to open up to me,</p>
<p dir="ltr">You asked me, and they drifted to the top, </p>
<p dir="ltr">Word after word</p>
<p dir="ltr">Filled with shame, sadness, loss, guilt and </p>
<p dir="ltr">Anger</p>
<p dir="ltr">Because I cannot believe the words burnt into their beautiful skin,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Their tattoos made visible under the lights and in the soft purple pastel</p>
<p dir="ltr">Because their voices should not break,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Their hands should not shake as they hold their grief close, pulled to their chest,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Their hearts shouldn't leak silver in the flash of the camera, rolling down their cheeks onto the words no one, but they, believe are truths</p>
<p dir="ltr">But then, you asked for the words I wanted to have tattooed on my skin, </p>
<p dir="ltr">In my heart</p>
<p dir="ltr">And as I wiped my allocated three away, to be replaced by my golden truths</p>
<p dir="ltr">I felt a lightness,</p>
<p dir="ltr">As their voices changed</p>
<p dir="ltr">And their words of love flowed into their naked skin</p>
<p dir="ltr">Whispers of who they would become, echoing under the lights and caught in gold pastel,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Their fierceness shown in accepting vulnerability and love </p>
<p dir="ltr">Now</p>
<p dir="ltr">My words are chosen and I write them with care,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Neat letters on the softness of my skin,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Because my life is not less because of the expectations of airbrushed perfection,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Of the words given to me to wear like a cloak of invisibility, </p>
<p dir="ltr">To fit the smallest of boxes,</p>
<p dir="ltr">To ease the self loathing and insecurities of others,</p>
<p dir="ltr">To force me to become less, want less, and finally</p>
<p dir="ltr">My words are chosen and I wear them now close to my heart.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">For I am here, </p>
<p dir="ltr">Gilded, </p>
<p dir="ltr">Authentic, beloved and free.<br><br></p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://alamojostudio.com/">Written after a session with A La Mojo Studios.</a><br></p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731832288936740018.post-63478469923258112132019-01-03T11:49:00.001+13:002019-01-03T11:49:33.522+13:00Crumbling differences<p dir="ltr"><i><b>Crumbling differences</b></i></p>
<p dir="ltr">Just because you've never felt my skin under yours doesn't mean you won't find your way around the map that is me. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Just because you've held my wrists in one hand and throat in the other doesn't mean my submission is to you not my demons. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Just because your fingers have been in me doesn't mean you know me inside and out. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Just because you've filled my mouth, with whispered words and more, doesn't mean they are more me than me. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Just because you've held my head, as you've gasped, fingers tangled, doesn't mean you caught me. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Just because you've counted the times I've broken, breath caught, released, doesn't mean you know how much I am worth. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Just because you've tasted us on my tongue doesn't mean we're the flavour of the month, we're still just you. And me.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Just because you've praised divinity more times tonight than you've said my name, doesn't mean you're closer to God than me. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Just because I've called you at midnight, to hear your voice run its fingers down my spine, </p>
<p dir="ltr">Just because you've said the right words, doesn't mean I've heard you say differently in my head, as I've rehearsed what I could say in return.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Just because we've danced on the edges of the crumbling difference between wrong and right, doesn't mean we're falling together.<br><br></p>
<p dir="ltr">Work in Progress, December 2018.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Updated, January 2019</p>
<p dir="ltr">© LattejunkieNZ <br>
</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731832288936740018.post-70924455117217696972019-01-03T11:42:00.001+13:002019-01-03T11:42:57.412+13:00Just because <p dir="ltr"><b><i>Just because</i></b></p>
<p dir="ltr">Just because I've called you at midnight, to hear your voice run its fingers down my spine, </p>
<p dir="ltr">Just because I've pulled you closer in my sleep, hand on your heart to feel its beat echo mine</p>
<p dir="ltr">Just because I've watched you as your back arches to bring you closer to my centre</p>
<p dir="ltr">Just because I've tasted you as your body shudders in time with the flicking of <u>my</u> tongue</p>
<p dir="ltr">Just because I've breathed you in as you've sighed my name as my body calls to yours</p>
<p dir="ltr">Just because I've woken to you trailing fire on my skin and the navy blue of your eyes watching for the goosebumps</p>
<p dir="ltr">Just because I've knelt at your feet and begged for your hand in my hair and affirmation</p>
<p dir="ltr">Just because I've drowned in the sounds of your pleasure and gasped my way to the surface</p>
<p dir="ltr">Doesn't mean I need you.</p>
<p dir="ltr">©LatteJunkie2019</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731832288936740018.post-51344175659403316052018-11-21T15:32:00.001+13:002018-11-21T15:34:02.175+13:00Trigger<p dir="ltr">His lips formed the names of deities,</p>
<p dir="ltr">They danced with sweetened endearments,</p>
<p dir="ltr">As they traced the outline of her face,</p>
<p dir="ltr">As they breathed in the moment of breaking -</p>
<p dir="ltr">The rhythm of togetherness</p>
<p dir="ltr">In hand, breast and dark warmth<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">Her voice broke the silent coding, the hidden trigger</p>
<p dir="ltr">Pulled as she sighed his name</p>
<p dir="ltr">As she traced the line of his spine</p>
<p dir="ltr">And the curve of his shoulder</p>
<p dir="ltr">And she flooded with feeling,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Forgetting that it was only for that night.</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731832288936740018.post-22328468886783200312018-09-08T20:34:00.001+12:002018-09-08T20:34:36.021+12:00How to change the world<p dir="ltr"><i><b>How to change the world</b></i>:</p>
<p dir="ltr">Speak clearly and with conviction but<br>
Don't sound too confident, you don't want to sound bossy do you?<br>
Don't call him on being rude or overbearing,<br>
He's showing you he cares, by treating you as less<br>
Stand up straight, shoulders open, take up space, but<br>
Put one foot in front of the other, dip your hip, curve your shoulders so that your collar bones have a shadow, tongue to the top of your palate and smile<br>
Smile but don't smile too much, he'll think you're flirty or ditsy<br>
Wear clothes that make you feel good but<br>
Don't wear anything too bright, short, revealing or provocative<br>
Stand your ground but learn to capitulate, his ego won't take it well<br>
Do your best, but remember boys don't like to be beaten<br>
Be sexually confident but<br>
Don't experiment, buy toys or have too many relationships<br>
Initiate conversation but<br>
Don't talk about yourself too much.<br>
Learn to do it yourself but<br>
He'll feel bad if you do it without asking him for help<br>
Be true to yourself but<br>
Don't let your life goals impact on his<br>
Be the change he wants to see in his world.</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731832288936740018.post-75862135288430445072018-09-07T20:55:00.001+12:002018-09-07T20:55:17.444+12:00Together is<p dir="ltr"><i><b>Together is</b></i></p>
<p dir="ltr">Together is <br>
Easy words, fleeting loneliness,<br>
Holding hands, candlelight <br>
Slow dancing and learning lyrics<br>
Discomfort, housework,<br>
Using your inside voice and <br>
Putting the toilet seat down</p>
<p dir="ltr">Together is<br>
Crying, hurting and forgiving<br>
Coffee dates, tea in bed,<br>
Cold toast and runny eggs<br>
Tissues, plasters and air freshener<br>
Holding a door, a hand and biting your tongue</p>
<p dir="ltr">Together is<br>
Shared playlists and Netflix passwords<br>
Opening jars, minds and intentional communication<br>
Code words, safe words and fewer excuses<br>
Super king duvets, throw pillows and the shelf you swore would fit all the books</p>
<p dir="ltr">Together is<br>
Making memories, promises and taking action<br>
A kind heart and gentle truths,<br>
Broken hearts, glue guns and No More Gaps<br>
Learning to love that colour, <br>
those shoes and that shirt</p>
<p dir="ltr">Together is<br>
Following a map, <br>
Getting lost, lighting matches<br>
Toasting marshmallows and burnt egos<br>
Risk, monopoly, poker faces<br>
Losing badly and winning well</p>
<p dir="ltr">Together is<br>
An effort, a complication,<br>
A reminder, a password<br>
An ambition<br>
A safe haven, a home<br>
A love<br>
And three words<br>
You and me.<br><br></p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731832288936740018.post-88929856837043587892018-09-07T20:51:00.001+12:002018-09-07T20:51:24.144+12:00In the dark.<p dir="ltr"><b><i>In the dark</i></b>.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">I'd tell you the truth, about how it felt<br>
In my chaotic heart<br>
To be held, phone lighting the sand,</p>
<p dir="ltr">When your arms found me<br>
As I began to fall apart.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I'd tell you the truth, about how it felt<br>
To be there again<br>
On that beach,<br>
Crying….Again….<br>
And how it felt like home.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">I'd tell you the truth, about how it felt<br>
To feel you breathe under my cheek<br>
As I watched the waves, <br>
And to feel your hand tracing circles<br>
As you held me in that moment.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I'd tell you the truth, about how it felt<br>
To want to step back, <br>
Because you are my safety net;<br>
And I owe you more than you'll ever ask for.<br>
And because I am too scared to lose you.<br>
But maybe, just maybe, you do need me as much as I need you.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">I'd tell you the truth, about how it felt<br>
To stare at the stars, holding back tears,<br>
Feeling the warmth of you<br>
As you stood near enough to hear my doubt.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">And I'd tell you the truth, about how it feels when you smile<br>
And I am reminded that I love you.<br>
And there is no explanation to make that truth more true -</p>
<p dir="ltr">Than your strength,<br>
Whispered on a beach, <br>
With silver waves and the light of a phone -<br>
Because you know that I can't see in the dark.<br><br><br></p>
<p dir="ltr">©LattejunkieNZ 2018</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731832288936740018.post-79721453432591968562018-09-07T20:47:00.001+12:002018-09-07T20:47:00.511+12:00Together<p dir="ltr"><i><b>It confuses me still</b></i></p>
<p dir="ltr">And it confuses me still, <br>
That practiced pause in your argument.<br>
The sudden switch to voiced concern<br>
To check that I am focused and ok -</p>
<p dir="ltr">Ok to let you continue telling me when, and where,<br>
We were standing the first time you doubted.<br>
How you felt the first time you loved another -</p>
<p dir="ltr">And another - </p>
<p dir="ltr">And another -</p>
<p dir="ltr">And came home to tell me why you had to feel and do.<br>
Because,<br>
I was not doing more<br>
To make you feel like you were part of a whole.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And how I should breathe deeper to smell the scent of their skin<br>
And the Dutch courage it took to allow yourself that release.</p>
<p dir="ltr">About how I should feel guilt <br>
and blame only myself,<br>
Because I made you do this.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Because I get caught in a word or a phrase <br>
And I think I'm doing better at holding us together.<br>
Until you pause to make sure</p>
<p dir="ltr">I'm<br>
<br>
Listening</p>
<p dir="ltr">To</p>
<p dir="ltr">Hear </p>
<p dir="ltr">How I should take the blame today.<br><br><br></p>
<p dir="ltr">© LattejunkieNZ 2018</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731832288936740018.post-84117090029119617762018-07-01T20:21:00.001+12:002018-07-01T20:21:40.073+12:00Twin<p dir="ltr">Her voice carries over the sound of wheels on wet tar,<br>
Over the shift of a bag, a guitar slung over a shoulder,<br>
Knee hitting the body of the other bag, rhythmically<br>
Part knell, part heartbeat,<br>
Driving him to the hill, <br>
To the two lakes, <br>
To her last wish.<br>
To set her loose, <br>
to allow himself to become one.<br>
No longer tied to him, no longer tied to anything,<br>
More than that, to let her be apart from him, <br>
but a part of all.<br>
For him to be one for the first time.</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731832288936740018.post-28133852950372760612018-07-01T20:07:00.001+12:002018-07-02T07:14:11.268+12:00Origami Hearts<p dir="ltr"><b><i>Origami Heart</i></b></p>
<p dir="ltr">You tore a page from our book<br>
With paint stained fingers<br>
And folded an origami heart</p>
<p dir="ltr">You tore a page from our book<br>
With ink stained fingers<br>
And folded an origami heart</p>
<p dir="ltr">You tore a page from our book<br>
With grass stained fingers<br>
And folded an origami heart</p>
<p dir="ltr">You tore a page from our book<br>
With cigarette stained fingers<br>
And folded an origami heart</p>
<p dir="ltr">You tore a page from our book<br>
With oil stained fingers<br>
And folded an origami heart</p>
<p dir="ltr">You tore a page from our book<br>
With tear stained fingers<br>
And folded an origami heart</p>
<p dir="ltr">You tore a page from our book<br>
With a stranger's fingers<br>
And folded an origami box</p>
<p dir="ltr">And now we no longer have a book, but -</p>
<p dir="ltr">A box full of hearts<br>
Made from our story<br>
Which tear as I open them<br>
Trying to find the page <br>
Or sentence that shows<br>
Where it all changed,<br>
Where the plot twisted<br>
Where the story ended</p>
<p dir="ltr">You tore a page from our book<br>
And made a box of hearts <br>
But all I have left <br>
Is paper cuts <br>
And confetti hearts.</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731832288936740018.post-56401265955766027652018-02-26T15:53:00.001+13:002018-02-26T15:53:39.962+13:00Ask Me<p dir="ltr"><b>Ask me</b></p>
<p dir="ltr">Ask me a question, </p>
<p dir="ltr">Actually, wait</p>
<p dir="ltr">Ask me a good question,</p>
<p dir="ltr">One that will prompt a story to flow from my heart</p>
<p dir="ltr">But, maybe not one that will make me remember the last time I was asked it,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Because I'm not going to tell you that story today.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Go on, ask me a question,</p>
<p dir="ltr">One that will open your eyes wide as I become something you've never guessed at</p>
<p dir="ltr">But maybe not that one? </p>
<p dir="ltr">Because then I'd have to couch it in explanations that would mar the velvet and rend the gossamer memory,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Rather,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Ask me about how it felt to hear his last kind word,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Ask me about how it felt to feel my first broken heart, not the last,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Ask me about how his tears tasted the night he first kissed me after she died,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Ask me about how the café smelt of coffee and cake as he fucked me on the steel countertop,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Ask me how it'll sound when your voice breaks as you finally understand the ending of the poem you've always suspected was about you,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Ask me how it will be when I finally find the answer to your question,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Ask me if I'll tell you.</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731832288936740018.post-78230563922423962812018-02-14T19:04:00.001+13:002018-02-14T19:04:33.702+13:00Tomorrow's Thoughts.<p dir="ltr">As the sun set and the clouds became the night black</p>
<p dir="ltr">The glamour failed and they saw the other side,</p>
<p dir="ltr">A bay of red and crimson, banked by peaks and shadowed cliffs,</p>
<p dir="ltr">A place that existed for them to marvel at,</p>
<p dir="ltr">A glimpse into a world where it had never happened,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Where it was all still, as it used to be, as it should have been,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Stretched out beyond their grasp, lingering to remind them that within the intake of breath and the receding whisper of the waves -</p>
<p dir="ltr">Was the rhythm of tomorrow's thoughts and the beating of a heart only bruised.</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731832288936740018.post-10309870822265466632018-02-10T20:23:00.001+13:002018-02-11T13:49:13.788+13:00Counted<p dir="ltr">If we're born with our map to the end of our race in hand</p>
<p dir="ltr">And our minutes are already counted</p>
<p dir="ltr">And everyone we'll ever meet is already going to meet us</p>
<p dir="ltr">And everyone we'll love, loves us already even though they don't know us yet,</p>
<p dir="ltr">And those who will in turn hate us, already carry it safely in their heart like a lump of coal not destined to become a diamond</p>
<p dir="ltr">And every tear, smile, laugh and hug is accounted for</p>
<p dir="ltr">And every fake orgasm is stored next to the real ones in wrapping that is seemingly exactly the same</p>
<p dir="ltr">And every meal is planned, trip booked, book lined up on a shelf,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Why do we try so hard to make each moment count twice?</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731832288936740018.post-92083284405476106302018-02-10T16:40:00.001+13:002018-02-11T13:46:31.422+13:00Spoons<p dir="ltr"><u>I</u> create room in my heart by wearing more and more of it on my sleeve,<br>
For there is always more to fit into it,<br>
New songs, moments of magic and of suspended disbelief,<br>
Sadness, hope, trust and warning signs,<br>
People who become treasures of my soul and who will never be asked to move,<br>
Eternal room-mates who will linger and become beloved like the faded blanket I fold into on days when it all becomes too much or when their arms are out of <u>reach</u> <br>
The real estate of my heart comes at a price,<br>
It costs salt, from my eyes or from my hard work<br>
It costs bitterly, in apologies and in mistakes<br>
Or in the acidic burns of slights, harsh words and painful moments of growth<br>
And still sweetly, in laughter, love and warm words, arms that hold it all together<br>
My sleeves are almost full, embroidered in blood red satin chain <u>stitch</u>, fading to palest pink,<br>
But now I can pour it into spoons to be carried on my hands,<br>
Hands that can hold more and can continue to protect the growth of my heart.</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731832288936740018.post-86687978466072617102017-11-05T18:06:00.003+13:002017-11-05T18:09:06.415+13:00Shrugeyes averted, shoulders dismissive<br />
<div>
it's hard to even write the words </div>
<div>
because they're not there</div>
<div>
they're replaced with dried up husks</div>
<div>
of excuses and simple phrases </div>
<div>
that don't touch the sides of the hole you're in</div>
<div>
shrug</div>
<div>
smile</div>
<div>
shake your head</div>
<div>
try to be in the moment</div>
<div>
while sifting through days and years</div>
<div>
stuck in your mind to accidentally find a solution</div>
<div>
or even a word to help fill the silence</div>
<div>
in your head as you watch the world</div>
<div>
passing behind the shadow of whatever it is you're feeling</div>
<div>
because without the words you're just....</div>
<div>
shrug</div>
<div>
smile</div>
<div>
shake your head</div>
<div>
and trying to fill the whole with nothing.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731832288936740018.post-72014421831508080712017-11-05T11:35:00.001+13:002017-11-05T11:35:41.574+13:00A thesaurus of me<p dir="ltr">Abandoning<br>
Antithesis<br>
<u>Blurred</u><br>
Dragging<br>
Dread<br>
Dull<br>
Disbelieving<br>
Lacking<br>
Loathsome<br>
Odious<br>
Out of focus<br>
Smudged<br>
Silent<br>
Still<br>
Vague<br>
Vacant<br>
Watchful<br>
Whispered</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731832288936740018.post-48860631111412049482017-10-22T17:40:00.000+13:002017-10-22T17:40:01.279+13:001997 - A thesaurus; Learning the meanings of old words<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1997 - A thesaurus; Learning the meanings of old words</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Necklace, no longer just the clutched pearls at Grandmother's throat,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now they are the mark of shame of submission to a man,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Or the mark of a feminist statement declaring independence of thought,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Or the burning of rubber and flesh to absolve the sins of one to another,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Or a warning to those watching, hoping to rise beyond their station.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Freedom, burning the 18 candles in a room of women -yet to be friends,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dancing past curfews, drinking in the life of those whom one wants to be like,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stupid words, dangerous flirting, knowing the risk of casually forgetting -</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Three letters always thought but never said, because of the colour of her skin,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Freedom from consequence, invincible hope and faith in a God that has yet to fail, yet to fall from grace.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fear, driven by a need for new experiences, driven in vans filled with intimate strangers,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To and from work or university or one gamble to the next,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Guns and warnings from old women who had seen too much to forget -</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To keep another mother's child from falling into the wrong crowd.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Broken glass, spent needles and used people, walked past and forgotten,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Car tyres bursting, breaking through barriers and, yet, building more,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nails and bombs punctuating the school days that pass as distrust becomes a blanket</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Of black and white and brown, mixing but not coalescing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sadness, that children will watch their mother burn for a love that is a Shakespearian theatre,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And that letters from home will be edited and parsed by the eagerness and immortality of youth,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And the truth of the cancer that grows will be hidden in the broken telephone calls late at night and deliberate miscommunication.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brave, a long walk down to the pool bar or a quicker walk to the tequila shots? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Visiting Rhodes at midnight, 20 years before he'll be purged from memory,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not flinching when car alarms and gunfire punctuate each stroll home,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Smiling through the confusion as the obvious is presented in a way that maked it visible,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And in its visibility it becomes a burden of shame and it discolours our liberal self image.</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Miscellaneous, visiting a psychiatrist to find out if the breaking of your mind is medical or an example of causality,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That lectures on paradigm shifting in a world that is no longer black and white can trigger a fractured family to collapse into a kaleidoscope of foreign shores and scapegoats,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That there will be no going back, because history cannot be re-lived nor can it be rewritten, it can only be translated into new words.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1997 - the year I learnt the thesaurus of a new South Africa.</span></div>
<br /><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731832288936740018.post-82794595201524336742017-10-22T17:28:00.001+13:002017-10-22T17:28:01.175+13:00Stop<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stop</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stop grasping at the leftover pieces of the puzzle,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The picture tore itself in half many moons ago</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Holding them close, forcing the imprints into your heart</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is not going to make it whole again. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The picture will always be incomplete</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A reflection of you missing the pieces that show the beginning</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stop grasping at the unwritten words, never spoken</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That set the scene, make explanations simpler</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That ground the story - putting you in perspective.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No amount of editing can change the denouement</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is tightly sewn into the narrative of your soul</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is your story.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stop grasping at them, those you’ve lost -</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For they are found, just not with you</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And their stories grow, your piece is lost now too</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To them, you are a story or at best, a puzzle</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shelved with the others - precious but unwanted</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stop </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Go</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Move forward, shadows will fall</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pieces will be fewer</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Plot lines will shift</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Memories will be worth more.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731832288936740018.post-89151478212929783812017-10-22T17:08:00.003+13:002017-10-22T17:08:37.261+13:00Ghosts<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The ghosts visited again today,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blurs of rose and silver rising </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From behind closed doors</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bringing with them the scent of summer</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And the taste of tears</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bringing the promises made - </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sitting on the benches in the sun, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In city streets after midnight -</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whispered in the predawn light.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731832288936740018.post-53758338160016496872017-01-11T21:20:00.002+13:002017-01-11T21:20:54.830+13:00she runs marathons in her mind,<br />
chasing thoughts that evade her<br />
as she lies clinging to the concept of sleep<br />
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she wades through arguments in her mind,<br />
trying to gain ground, or understanding,<br />
before she has to waltz on eggshells<br />
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she lies breathlessly waiting,<br />
what tune will play at dawn -<br />
who will she be?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731832288936740018.post-36125563777046286052016-10-24T12:58:00.000+13:002016-10-24T12:58:03.135+13:00The Wolf And I<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">For without the wolf</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731832288936740018.post-41365839265857205042016-10-21T17:33:00.001+13:002016-10-21T17:33:01.018+13:00Universe<p dir="ltr">Sometimes the universe is caught <br>
In your eyes, lit up by laughter, <br>
in her tears, sliding over pale cheeks<br>
In magic he made for you,<br>
Of glitter and tea, a child's potion.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sometimes the stars blur,<br>
Becoming fairy wings glittering in the setting sun<br>
Or crushed glass under water and lights.<br>
Stirred by winds, invisible fingers<br>
Trailing through the memories of today and tomorrow.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sometimes the universe falls at your feet,<br>
Silken black, begging for forgiveness<br>
At the shortness of <u>breath</u>,<br>
The dying light at the tips of your fingers<br>
At the end of the miracle, stardust crumbles<br>
Caught only in photographs and memories.</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731832288936740018.post-88836933824470685762016-03-29T13:39:00.001+13:002016-03-30T17:36:02.272+13:00Song<p dir="ltr">When the song plays and your face is all I see,<br>
Taken out of context, stolen from the photo I took in the river, summer-warm,<br>
Frozen smiles, secrets of youth, sunlit, <br>
Taken before we spent timeless days dancing the dance of misheard lyrics and stubbed toes<br>
I wonder where it is now <br>
That other life, that other me?</p>
<p dir="ltr">When he sings along to the song,<br>
His voice hides a smile, the words tickle him,<br>
When the song plays, and he sings,<br>
I can smile again.<br>
I wonder at that dance, <br>
That old life, that old me.</p>
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