Loves

There's love...
and Love...
and LOVE;
in colours, shapes, sizes
they come, they go
they stay, they play
sentences
to life imprisonment
condemned
to live alone.
Promises, roses
chocolates, candles
how much can you handle?
warmth, snuggles
kisses, hugs
keep 'em under rugs.
Noise of laughter
picnics,parties
shoulder to shoulder
soldering
sentences
to life imprisonment
condemned
to live alone.
Release
with ease
a change of mind
a new leaf
Freed
from life imprisonment
content
to live alone.

Fever Breaks

Done!
with tossing and turning
Done!
with futile yearnings
Tastelessness
coats tongues
listlessness
in limbs
Rest
Calm
A space to breathe
Laying back
to start again
old life
or new
unknown
unknowing
the view

Tears Flow

Tears flow
for wrongs and right
for loves and slights
for years well spent
for days of lament
for gossamer dreams
for soundless screams
a life lived, a life lost
at unknown costs
for the way ahead
for broken thread
for innocent fawn
for the first dawn
for where it lead
for homeless head
for deed that's done
for a lonely run
flow fast, flow slow.

Highway

A Highway
built across fields
development
or progress
they know
the difference
green grass
and a million lives
they know
the cost
trundling vehicles
loaded
goods or humans
day and night
without rest
weariness creeps
crevices
a tear
here or there
surface marred
shun them
drive slow
grass creeps back
to heal the breach
hold together
that cruel surface
a saviour now
to one
that annihilates.

Walking out of a grave

When phone won't ring
or messages ping
When heart is worn
on a shoe string
When wills won't dare
and minds declare
gates are shut
stand out and stare
When days are long
and fears are strong
in secret nights
tears flow along
When spirit is dead
or life's on head
a sane voice calls
get up and tread
When someone hears
misery clears
cheerful smiles
again appear.

Emptiness

A stretch of time- vacant
as solitary, unused beach
boulder strewn;
waves of memories
ebb and flow, ebb and flow
relentless roar,
and lonely Eagle soars
scouring the ground,
not seeking prey
but hearts to touch:
Far away twinkling lights
life lived in cozy homes
fathers and sons and wives
their daily chores;
Eagle soars evermore
in open skies
no perch, no berth
cliffs to land, a stretch of sand
close to death each day
reborn with every morn.

Reclaiming

A baby step
cute, adorable
indulgent smiles;
A second, firmer
unnoticed, not hostile
A leap forward
the first jolt
arrows through heart
A secret tunnel
stealthily dug
opens on lost land
hide in sands
A last ambush
vanquish ties
Fate's sleight of hand
Reclaim lost land. 

Wasteland Life

Force out of hearth
Bar from heart
A wasteland life
O Transgressor!

Love beyond boundary
Steps out of line
Disrupting assembly lines

Hound, stone, incarcerate
Yet let live
Death too soft
An escape

A life of shame, of blame
Of thousand failings
In overstuffed belly. 

Masked games

Masks
wear by day
hide fear
shut pain
rule out shame
play the game.

Masks
rip off by night
bring out claws
hack and saw
through out straw
all in the game.

Masks
on face
on heart
learned art
play the part
in the game.