Struggles

I’m posting a poem dedicated to James Bevan

I’m posting this poem as a dedication to my friend,...

Rule of thumb dumb luck is lush
most get by off just the crumbs
by all means take my funds...

Suddenly nothing is working, disaster is lurking,
there's no guarantee, even the news is breaking,...

Nightmares are dreadful things
They creep into subconscious minds
And tear at sanity's...

I sit here trying to write, with all my might

I can’t

There is simply nothing of importance...

I once had a toy
A cherished bear I called
Teddy
He’d sit under my arm
Whilst...

I’m so sorry that I left you....
It took so long for you to even search for reasons why
...

There is a part of the city, where the undesirables go,
They are there through searing heat, and...

In the throat of the lobster
I spy a clinic full of cynics
Fishing off shore
Who, in...

the stairs were shallow
the steps were lean
(one – and then another)

the mind (a-...

I am used to walking this road all alone,
my footsteps nimbly avoiding each stone,
designed...

The first storm
Left me struggling
For the very air to breath
​​​​​​I was very young...

Words are our vehicles
Expressions of our selves
Rhymes out of time
Birds on a line...

It is time I think to move on from here
I'm beginning to outstay my welcome I fear
Shame...

You only live as long as the last person who remembers you.
Negatively impacting your own life...

It is no longer possible
or desirable
to walk the empty street

For the quicksand...

The temper is upon me
It jumps on my lap like a screeching cat
I jump up and bat at it...