SHADOW

You stood at the edge of me, with a paintbrush in hand and coloured me in. Coloured my skin.
My shadow weeps and all of the colours bleed into one.

APOCALYPSE

If the world was upside down

Prayers would rise and in rivers drown

And raining would be heavy words

Of regret, flimsy apologies, misery

When they hit the sky,

They'd dissipate, picked apart by 

Swarms of deranged birds

Shared out and passed around

So "forgive me for I have sinned"

Might just end up "give me"

And when you put palm to palm 

Head to knee

Was all you wanted to say in the beginning. 

SIX FEET UNDER

How much further before you see, that I'm slipping through the grains of the Earth.

CRYSTALLISED

There is beauty in my lies,

Spawned out of crystallised light

That blinds your eyes

Numbs your tongue,

Dumbfounded you look on

At my spinning masterpiece of,

Not white lies, slipped out

Scratching the surface, softly softly

Or pernicious lies, thought out then

Spilled out one after the other

Double-edged sword drawing out 

Hoarse cries, that drone on and on

Just perfectly see-through lies

That you see right through.

THE UNDERPASS

Standing under the underpass,
Looking up
Rain falls on tears
Falls down, hits the ground
Like a pin-pointed arrow
Narrowly missing my feet,
That are buried deep in the puddles
Of rising anguish
My legs are caving in, ready to give obeisance to the sea lord
Standing under the the underpass
Looking up

WANDERER

There is no path I can walk,
Where I can leave my own footprints first
The Earths surface has been covered,
Over
I follow you, always trailing behind.

LIGHT WORK

We're on borrowed time
Darkness will soon want it back
To black
To night
So show off your light
Let me get beneath the skin
Of life
And begin
Tearing at the layers with alacrity
Leaving my mark