He was Just a Little Boy
I was born unto this world
A little boy called James
I was just like all the rest
Who in the playground played normal games
I knew my life was in trouble
By the time I reached the age of five
My mother had so many friends
I wondered why I was alive
The kids all used to laugh at me
In my short trousers and bloodied knees
If only they had known
What was going on, in the inside of me
Would they ever know
Why a mother would put you down
And pretend that your not there
As another arrives from out of town
Have they ever wondered
To go to school with clothes unwashed
Sleep on a concrete floor
While your Mother's comfortably sloshed
Do they ever stop and wonder
What happens around them day by day
They can't, because they are young like me
When all they want to do is play
My teens are around the corner
To secondary school I go
I survive and I get wiser
As I intend my life to flow
As we travel down life's highways
When we are born they are seldom written
You know the roads you want to take
For inside you, your internally smitten
Walking out of Life's Mist
When we come into this world we just never know what lies ahead
From
toddlers to infants to teenagers, life unreels our threads
Some
find their way in life and move onto better things
Others take a
different path and internally their heart never sings
The
fortunate grow old, with friends and families their life's prize
But
so many are separated by their life, internal songs become internal
cries
When we come into this world, it's our opportunity to exist
Sometimes
we have to help each other, by walking out of life's mist
Lasting Memories
She
recalls
her childhood
down on the beach ~
Lasting memories
of driftwood and rock pools ~
Thoughts of family bonding
swell her eyes, tears soak in her past ~
Born waves caress her faintly lain steps ~
No trace of her message in a bottle.
What do you do
What do you do when the love has gone
You wake up every morning where you don't belong
What do you do when your trust has been broken
Where there's been lying and deceit, unhappiness your token
What do you do to absorb all this grief
What is the remedy to find some relief
What do you do when there is no end in sight
When you know it's now broken and it will never be right
What do you do when you have no place to run
Is it the front of a train or at the end of a gun
Ledge
On this ledge I sit
Contemplating tomorrow
Will it be a different day
Or the same old sorrow
Even the clouds
Look as gloomy as me
Grey and ashen
Soon we could both be free
Below me the waters
Image where I sit
A mirrored calm
As if it's knowing where I'll hit
Behind me there's a trickle
Drip drip, like the clock of time
My tears hit the mirror
So close to the end of mine
On this ledge where I sat
Out of body looks down on me
You really had to be there
To know what it's like to be free
No Better Picture
No picture can match
As a little face twitches
A loving child sleeps
Why Another Oil Spill
We know of this disastrous event
As we now know of the spills extent
All these years they had time to invent
A remedy for repairable descent
We allow them drilling consent
To represent our resourceful contents
Our geology is picked up by their scents
Millions of years are turned into cents
In Scotland we have oilfields called the Brent
Where the same companies represent
There is always the element of torment
For nature there is never a lament
All they are interested in is their percent
One day they may be held to account and repent
She Internally Weeps
She awakens again it's just another day
He helps himself for his joyous plays
No feelings are shared as he satisfies
His selfish ego as she internally cries
He lies back spent in sniggering mode
So ignorant to notice her life in erode
His voice becomes raised as he heads for the shower
Make my breakfast honey, showing his pig arrogant power
He heads of to work, he'll be gone for a week
She sits down and sighs as she internally weeps
In the empty house that's become her hell
The day is dawning as she says her farewell
" I promise to myself of my desire to move on
To find a new heart that will sing my same song
Loving and cherishing, laughter and some tears
But to awake every morning not facing the same fears "
The day has come as I turn around and look back
This chapter of my life ends, no more of his flack
A new page begins today as my life restarts
And just maybe one day I will reopen my heart
I Dream of a Girl
I dream of a girl
To caress my world
Gracing my eyes
As our future swirls
I dream of a girl
To share in my life
Partners and lovers
To relieve my strife
I dream of a girl
To share my sights
Performing to forms
Entwined in our writes
I dream of a girl
To make a new start
Sharing my nights
Opening my heart
I dream of a girl
As I awake the next day
My dreams have been answered
For beside me she lays
Love is Like Porcelain
Love is like porcelain
So perfect and smooth
Two sides giving
With so much to lose
Love is like building blocks
Lived day by day
Words can say
But only true hearts display
Love is like porcelain
When cracked can go wrong
Impurities take over
We never sing the same song
Love is like building blocks
By day they reside
If they crumble and fall
Then grows the divide
Love is like porcelain
It has to be lived
Fifty, fifty
Each has to give