Wednesday 11 November 2020

The Bachelor

 

          

 

Johnny in his late 30s.  A bachelor.  He loved those denim jeans with the blue washed look.  Braces holding them up over his naked top half of his body.  Looking like his grandfather before but less dressed.  He thought of himself as confident content in himself.  A ladies man too.  Sitting outside the families’ petrol station in Kentucky.  He ran the business now as his parents had passed away.  Sitting on the wooden barrel he watched on as customers filled their tanks up full of gas.  Puffing on his grandfather’s pipe.  Caught between the now and the past. 

Hello ladies he said as two blondes walked by him.  They just smiled thought he was cute but possibly too wild dangerous for them.  He had that wild glint in his eyes.  He looked on wishing they could see past his hard muscle torn chest and cheeky look. 

All I want is to settle down.  A wife and family. 

Jeff came over.

Can I get a light off you as he touched Johnny’s leg.  Johnny’s eyes widened with shock and he left the wooden barrel immediately

The Cellar

 


 

It was dark in the cellar.  No light to fume the room.  To show the dancing fairy dust fluttering around.  The scent of decaying walls could be felt against his back.  As his spine tightened in towards it.  Eyes trying to fix on any glimmer of light of hope.  He could hear nothing deep down in the darkness.  All to keep him company was his memories.  These thoughts flooded the loneliness of those hours.  His knees held tightly to his tummy like a child.  Summer scents sunshine fields dancing away a beer in his hand.  Then bang the darkness fell again.  Flooding his eyes with tears.  That was the day his eyes never seen the light of day again.  The crash had taken everything.  His wife and son and his eyesight.  His lungs still moved his heart still beating.  His heart to empty so alone.  His world in darkness.  The salted tears ripped through his skin like the metal in the car did all those years before. 

 

Where are they now?  What am I to do in this darkened cellar that I live in?  My voice is the only one i hear.  I wish I could see them one last time.  I hate these chains around my eyes. 

Sunday 19 July 2020

Tainted




My fuel is not you’re culture
My spirit not yours to keep
My demons that live inside of me
Buried in so deep

They devour my mind in darkness
Dance with it during the day
Sending it into chaos
On my knees I pray

My heart is heavy
Bones dragged through
Thorns and storms
Leaving wreckage in the sand
Footless carnage reborn

Divine light save me
From the dragon
On my back
He will not loosen his rope
My hands are shackled black

As my eyes drain out of light
I drown in his demise
I must trust what he says now
He surely wouldn’t tell me lies

As I walk bare foot into the darkness
I feel so alone
His voice is my compass
To walk this earth unknown

Sunday 29 December 2019

Dragged




White lines covering the grey
Skies overhead smashing together
Gasping air
As he lay still
Not a breath
No one to care

Flashing blue
Tormented soul
Bringing dawn
Door unhinged
Memories on the floor

Canvass of red stained sleeves
Pale skin
Porcelain cheeks
Eyes still
Red lips peel

Fogged up memories
On stained air
His heart slows down now
Her beauty
Trapped in cabin flare

Burning silence
Branches crack
Life stood still
Red footsteps
The track


Friday 27 December 2019

Shallow




Dragging his shadow into the wilderness
 His thirst grew stronger and stronger.
 The veins of his arms filled up with her scent
  His tortured body aching with every move

 He turned to look at the house one last time
 The windows covered in memories
 What should have been minutes seemed to go on for ever?
The sleeve of his jacket covered in red stains

 What will I do?
 These thoughts filling his mind
 Walking past snow covered pine trees
 A happy occasion for most

 Silence biting through him
 His eyes widen with every move
 The sky so clear
 Blue crystals hanging on the trees reflecting his identity

 Masked by a hat and scarf wine and yellow lines patterned on them
 Crying nature roaring out to one another
 Messengers of the wild
 His heart felt the dagger

 Isolation brought sadness
 As he leaned against the road to freedom
Statues of that first day they met caught his eye
 A simple heart with each other’s initial captured within
 Caged by beauty

 Standing alone now
 No one to guide him on his journey
 A breath fell from his lips
 As the sirens passed by him
He lay in an unmarked grave
The red stained sleeves catching the light.   


Wednesday 27 November 2019

Tomorrow Land




If tomorrow never comes
If my breath ceases to exist
All that remains
Is raindrops and mist

If tomorrow is borrowed
We all live today
We all rush
Through corridors
Of columned form
This has become the norm

If tomorrow never comes
Where am I now
Am I in a chair
In the middle of a room
In the ground
Dusting flowered perfume

If tomorrow never comes
I will sing out those tunes
Rhythm of dancers
Jazz and blues

If tomorrow never comes
I have hope it certainly will
As my eyes close to a dream
Tomorrow is my thrill  


Thursday 24 October 2019

Lost in Isolation




Let the ripper
Tear away my heart
Built in my chest
Deep in captivity

He forages for new blood
Wanting fresh for to fulfil
His thrill
Reaping is his pill

Along he drags
His shadow
Pulling it around
Nothing exists
Only the cries of an over populated crowd

As he tries to pull me
Deeper into his ways
I must follow him now
I must not betray
He expects me to stay

Prisoner in his shackles
Voices cause chaos
Roaring in his mind
Eyes never close
He may as well be blind