Grandfather
Lone Wolf
Some Day
Examen
Pebbles
Empty Pages

If

If I could leave this place and time
If I could begin it all again
If I could repeat the good things
If I could delete the bad
If I could hear Mum's voice again
If I could see her sunshine smile
If I could walk the dog again
If I could play her favouite game
If I could end the echoing darkness
If I could remember how to fly
If I could have a heart unbroken
If I could more than dream

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Broken, battered, torn and bruised
Beaten, damaged, hurt, abused
Twisted, sickened, angry, shocked
Lost, alone, distrusted, mocked
Frightened, feeble, undermined
Injured, stranded, left behind
Fading, drowning, losing faith
Slowly, sadly, sinking wraith

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Every Time

Every time I smile I remember that I'm not who I was
And it makes we want to cry, you know why, just because
and I'm sitting here
thinking of you
wondering what you'd tell me to do
and there's no answer
not that I hear
the silence is the thing that I fear

You took my heart and made it bleed
You took my soul and broke its wings
And I should thank you
You can't get up till you're down

Every time I wake I remember that you're gone and for good
And I try hard not to cry, you know why, don't think I should
get up and go out
still thinking of you
knowing that whatever I do
that there's no answer
not that I hear
tell me why should I shed a tear

You took my heart and made it bleed
You took my soul and broke its wings
And I should thank you
You can't get up till you're down

Every time I dream I see the long ago times that we were
And it makes me want to cry, you know why, you were with her
and my heart's cold
still thinking of you
wishing that I'd known what to do
and there's no answer
not that I hear
I listen but I don't hear

You took my heart and made it bleed
You took my soul and broke its wings
And I should thank you
You can't get up till you're down

Every time I think that it still hurts I can break through it
And it makes me want to cry, you know why, I can do it
And I'm sitting here
still thinking of you
laughing that I cried over you
and there's the answer
not that I hear
I looked and it was right here

You took my heart and made it bleed
You took my soul and broke its wings
And I should thank you
You can't get up till you're down.

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Define madness.
If it is liking what I like
and not what I'm told to like
seeing both sides
and not taking the one you expect
hating the world
and all it's self obsession
fearing to tread
where doing so would cause harm
feeling too deeply
and never letting you see
not following the crowd
and finding a better path
pitying your loss
of individuality and spark
willingness to die
for a stranger or a beast
having a heart
big enough for all of you
or a mind
broad enough for all ideas
saying the things
that you haven't the courage to say
or wanting the same peace
that I would give to you
Then I am mad.

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Rhetoric

So much is spoken, so little is said
And we listen 'til our eyes grow red.
So much hyperbole, so insincere
And they continue so long as we hear.

Red ties and yellow, green ties and blue
Dressed up in soundbytes, they say nothing new.
Give them your money and give them your vote
Can't give an answer that's not learned by rote.

Ask them for honesty, swallow their lies
Close off your minds as democracy cries
Weeping for what was an honourable dream
Where each of us had our own place in the scheme.

Money is power, not justice, not truth.
Image is all not tangible proof.
Choices are blurred with rehearsed rhetoric.
It's who shits the sweetest and it makes me sick.

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Deluded

Oh, my love, I cannot tell thee how I feel.
My heart, so full, knows not if this is real.
The joy at word from thee, at any sight
Stirs my spirit unto the edge of flight.
Delusion is the spectre that I fear.
It holds my words in check my darling dear.
To declare myself and find nothing true
Can end only in hurt and loss of You.
For I can live having loved thee, saying naught
Better than could I being caught
Into the trap of telling thee my heart
And ensuring then that e'er we are apart.
Distant must I be and ever yours,
Aching for thy heart to give thee cause
To tell to me that spectre is untrue
That you belong with me and I with you.

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