The Sickness

My ankle still hurts from early hours Sunday morning, I got so drunk that I threw up again and I was so embarrassed that I fled, left my shirt and my hat, my dignity too. Running so fast that I stumbled in my platform shoes on the stairs, it happened so fast and I was …

Memories For Company

Today I walked past a house and through the window i could see their Christmas tree, still up, still shining full of lights even in February. I didn't even mind, in a way I completely understood how it felt to hold on to something good for as long as possible, something that brings you joy. …

Winter’s Whisper

The ground outside is frozenI can see the air I breatheAnd my chest is still torn openAs my skin begins to freeze The light inside is dyingAs my feet are turning blueI'm forever in this winterAnd I owe it all to you Time has stopped it's tickingAnd the lakes are frozen stillAll the icicles are …

Chasing The Sun

You rip out my heart with your slight of hand and try to ram the moon into the space it left in my chest. I gave up on the moon when you gave up on me yet you hold it out in your hand, offering it up as if to give me solace for your …

The First Snow

The tire tracks his car had left upon my drive were still there by morning, I cried at the sight of them as I smoked a morning cigarette and drank my coffee. I didn't feel the morning chill clawing at my dressing gown nor did I acknowledge the pounding in my head as the headache …

Delete

Delete One after another and repeat I watched our Christmas disappear first Your birthday vanished soon after With every hit of the button, the knot in my stomach tightened Delete I opened the file, Paris Emotions torn from my mind Faded were your eyes the whole time Gone now though to a place I’ll never …

If I Died

Still, time and space stop If I died, I wouldn’t mind My eyelids drop You’re so warm in my content Fingers locked inside mine I’m in the hoodie you lent Your heart you didn’t lend me That is mine to keep I’ve packed it away nice and neat And Inside the pleats I stored my …

Crying Wolf

Road cones and crying wolf We are driving through the dark Your hands are on the wheel But your teeth surround my heart And I am happy thought I’m crying Tears are pooling in my gut As I feel your eyes upon me Accelerator under foot.

ATARI

I got a stain on his favourite hoodie, the one he would let me wear. The stain wouldn't come out, so I couldn't help but feel like he left with a piece of me when he took it back. Eventually he would leave with more than just his hoodie. He left with the fragments of …

Rebirth

I shed my skin wafer thin as you watched from the sand I watched myself feed the fishes under your watchful gaze I let myself become the water I let myself become the grit between my toes And with the returning tide I became a new man With a new life Under a new moon …