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the mornings alonelittle to fight forso maybe drop the fightdon’t take on the worldmaybe give it a restmaybe don’t be obsessedmaybe go out for a run but your leg’s still swollen from the knee op you didand the sun is hiding while the wind just screamsits incessant strengthits incessant noiseand today is not the daytodayContinue reading “don’t take on the world”

I opened the doorwalked out into the worldopen endedone waysome rare returnsand I found new roadsI will never forget the death in her eyeswhen I told her we’d leave Swanbourne behindbut I learnt less from truths than lies and I wish I could tell youmy sister I wish…I wish I could tell you it’s safetoContinue reading “travel to leave”

I saw it from your eyesthe first time that we metthis city wasn’t homeand you could not forgetcos you’d lived in new yorkand missed it every dayand dreaded everything that’d taken you away so i’d write another tunefor you to fall asleep toand build you your own roomfor you to go and weep into andContinue reading “she lived in new york”

for reasons you knowand others you ignoreI’m gonna tell you these words in the morningas you make your way homepast people you’ve leaned onpast people who don’t know where you’re going the nights that we spent sat on the humid sandthe times that we tried and failed to understandfifteen years ago but it could beContinue reading “back to london”

dream another dreamdream next to meand when it’s sundown…when it’s sundown…we are walking by the lake and stare back into the distanceand back into townand that walk will feel like a parade of orange lightswhen the wind quietens down do I look like the man I’ve been?and of all the things you’ve ever seenyou willContinue reading “sundown”

remember the farce, so close to killing usexcept it was notat least not as sold to usremember the farce and remember me beforenot one to submit to conspiracy galoreremember the days that we had to spend apartremember the pain deep in your heart of heartsremember the lightthe spring lightthe balcony on which you dreamt outContinue reading “remember the farce”

I will find a wayand for you, I’m gonna stayI’ll go, but not for longwhen I return, we’ll be so strongmy face in my handswhen I see you, love knows no endand I’ll miss you till that fateful daywhen, my son, I’ll see you again for you, I’ll always find a wayto hell with everythingContinue reading “stolen time”

when was the last time that I learnt something newbefore I started learning everything through you? if I can’t see you I don’t know what I’m gonna dothe world has been brought down by a simple flu but know I’ll love you all the sameI’ll always love you all the sameI’ll always love youI willContinue reading “once more to the moon”

my cigarettes, your broken heartthe solitude from being apartthe sorrow that you’ll carry into tomorrowand no regrets with ways that partno apologies for who we areeach other’s lines and lies, mutually borrowed and I can’t even tell whose wordswould come out of whose mouthsbut I recall we’d always have tomorrowtomorrow can be comforting or punishContinue reading “we’d always have tomorrow”

I loved you but it feels like a thousand years agolove in the past tense is sickeningbut it’s all I’ve ever known‘one hundred years of solitude’ is still my favourite bookbut I can say that from your lotthat’s all I ever tookone day you told me to forget… and I watched myself goto never returnatContinue reading “I loved you but it feels like 1000 years ago”