- (Rage)
Burning with hatred
Like bile in my throat
Another reaction
I wear like a coat,
How could this happen
To one such as me
The cruel and the selfish
Are all that I see,
I’ll spit my last breath
With venom and vile
At those more deserving
And leave with a smile,
And you with your hope
I leave in my wake
As I plough my furrow
For sanity’s sake.
- (Regret)
All the things I’ll never do
Ring through my head
Like the desolate bells
Of New Year’s mass,
Their promise so clean
Like the crispness of frost
Dissolving with time
And age’s fickle kiss,
All the empty places
Once written in my heart
Lie like wrappers discarded
By last year’s favoured children,
All the flesh I’ll never touch
Once the lure of youthful days
Haunt the hollows of my eyes
Then fade like spectres past,
All the words I thought I owned
Now rattle through this house
A jumbled case of scratches
That fail to mark my time.
- (Sorrow)
A thousand salted rainbows
Seep slowly from your eye,
They sigh their words of sorrow
Sign scars beneath your skin.
The fragrance of your anguish
Which fills an empty room,
The memories it brings me
Cuts deeper than these wounds.
You, curled like sorrow’s foetus
I bring you only pain,
Prostrate like a crucifix
I cannot heal you now.
And I will leave you nothing
But emptiness and doubt,
Stripped and bound in ruined skin
To never feel again.
- (Love)
Kiss these lips
With passion now
As if it were
For the first time.
Take this hand
And feel the heat
That burns inside
Above all else.
Hold me now
A fragile beast
And take this love
My gift to you.
Take this hand
Fingertip kiss
And keep it safe
Within your heart.
Kiss these lips
Before they fade
From pastel pink
To night-cold blue.
