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I bought myself a loneliness and all that it entailedthe days of possibilitiesthe hours spent in vainthe canvas was so whitebut you cannot re-invent lifeand life won’t give you a look inunless you really try and I sang from the river as the clouds began to fadeand I stood there and dithered the afternoon awayandContinue reading “I sang from the river”

and so we talk because we have to talkbut we don’t say a thing of consequenceof any worthcos you and I met while on the jobour escapade is planned but a month is just too longand I look for excuses not to writeto stay aloof and push away my longing for that nightbut sometimes IContinue reading “month long silence”

I’d been craving to go for much too longfor much too longwhen I left behind all of your lightsI almost cried very little to say as you gently faded awaythere’s a time and a placeand a light and a space but I used to joke you were fakeso much future and almost no pastbut nowContinue reading “letter to my city from the future”

I slept at the old house one last timethe room looked so crampedand nothing felt rightthe white walls were never really that whitecause of the dogs, the smokes and the lightsthen it got sold as we all knew it wouldmy father moved flats, but not neighbourhoodsas static a life as a framed stillwhere movement precedesContinue reading “white walls in a fairy tale town”

now you’ve seen all the things that you wanted to seeand you’ve seen all the things you could never believebut what matters most is you’ve beenyou’ve been…you’ve been all you wanted to be and I’ll sing your song back to the skyand hope it reaches out to youand I’ll sing your song and spend someContinue reading “the mirror”

in the words of a hooker I once met in a moscow brothel‘you want me, you pay me’she was wisesurely wiser than my own estranged motherthe price you pay for your ways there’s no wisdom in defeatI hope you’ll remember itin your cold and lonely daysin your life gone astray you’re chasing dream after dreamsheContinue reading “moscow brothel”

you of all people will know exactly how it feelsto call the world your homeand yes, it’s happening againwe’re thinking of maybe one day moving to cork and I will call you the winter boya winter boy like myself four years, but it feels oh so longthe changing of the seasons has eluded mewhile she’sContinue reading “the winter boy”

you often come to me in my deepest sleepyou always come to me when I’m aloneyou know when to appear in the weirdest dreamslike the one in which we owned an owland it stood on the wood fence ’round our lawn don’t you worry there’s no hurrysome tales are best untoldand certain others, scream themContinue reading “the dream with the owl”

I’ll drive you thereyou left on a sunday… no, relief, it won’t come cheapeven time can be a cheatwhen it lets you think you’re healedno, there’s no hidden pot of gold at the end of the rainbowonly time clipping your heelsbut then I can read it in your facethat you feel you’ve run your raceandContinue reading “early april day”

took a rainy day as a starting pointI let it water meit didn’t disappointremember my eyes thengleaming and so braveI wish I could go backand feel it all again but you were always lateand I didn’t mind at allalways worth the waitin the summer and the fall pictures from my mindfutures dreamt and passedthose timesContinue reading “summer and the fall”