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Ode To Audrey

Glamorous, fun and full of life
Always an interesting and loyal wife
Around the village she is known
For living life in her own particular tone

For her family she does prepare
Many a feast beyond compare
For the animals so oft alone
She has given much love, shelter and even her home

Come Christmas time the house is all a glitter
As Audrey runs around doing the annual jitter
Smiling from within is this special being
Generous, giving and all seeing
Her energy would seem to overflow
Never one to leave others low
This is my grandmother The Great Grandy
Whose life runs circles around those less than 80!

To my life you have brought
Something which can never be taught
You gave yourself, you made me smile
As I saw you go the extra mile
Within my thoughts I hold you dear
And in that way you are always near
I close my eyes and picture your face
And know that time cannot displace
The essence of the inner you
That in my life now follows through

Thank you for always being such a dear
Your effect on my life is more than clear

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The Heart Rendered Silent

The heart was rendered silent
Buried and freshly cut
By the nuance of the moment
I was destroyed as the space closed shut
The pain of disarray
As my emotions I did disobey
Buried in the silence of indifference to myself

The pain, the pain of this mental closure
Gates were closed as the “saviour of the world” I tried to shoulder
Every ache and every need
Of those that were dealt life’s misdeeds
But where was I, where was I
In this painful mess
Here I am pained and bloodied by my own distress

Silent closure equals physical pain
As the body repels with disdain
Release me or I will foreclose on you
You have a choice to yourself
You have a choice to be true

Release your heart, release your pain
Allow yourself to exist on this earthly plain
Recognise yourself in this quagmire
It is not necessary to doom yourself to the flames of the funeral fire

Alive, alive, I am alive
My voice shouts out to my own ears
Who is this voice, who can it be
I truly thought I had buried she
She that resides within my heart
All I had to do was open my inner eye and allow fear to depart….

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Running Free

Running free, running free
Can you see me, I am free

My spirit soars, no longer chained
to a body that hinders against my inner law
I am free, do you see me
I am alive, do not mourn
You will only be left forlorn

Celebrate beloved one
For you were always my favourite son
My sun and moon they still exist
It is your smile that is betwixt
For I to leave this inner realm 
I seek your smile so that I can go that final mile

Joy is lacking where you feel pain
Brought to you by life’s disdain
Don’t you see I am free
Soaking up a greater reality
I am one, I am whole
It is earthly life that always stole
this inner freedom, this great relief
that the pain of life took from me like a thief

Running free, running free
Can you see me, I am free

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Erosion

Grief erodes him softly from the inside out
It doesn’t scream, it doesn’t shout
Like a silent gas it seeps and permeates
Forming a cloak over his usual state
Infiltrating the inner being
It’s host unknowing and unseeing
Anger rages back and forth
Throwing its host’s life off course

The external eye cannot see
the inner war or causality
Where once stood an upright soul
Grief has twisted it around a ragged pole
He thinks he knows, but he cannot feel
As grief is the thief that makes life unreal

Will it swallow him alive?
Surely he must be the one to survive!
His companion begs to ask –

Will he be the man he was before this arrived?
Or will grief be too successful in its task?

These questions remain unanswered
As grief is forever the silent dancer
It does not care to share its mission
To release the pain that started this endless frission…..

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Two Weeks

Two weeks have gone, since we spoke last
and all I see are flashes of a distant past
The mourners came and celebrated
Your life now over, now belated
I twist and turn but find no causality
that would lead me to a path of normality
To turn me around to the normal life
That existed before, now I lean on my wife

Where did you go, I implore
as my silent tears flow for evermore
Once you were here, now you are gone
Did I ever notice how brightly you shone
Did I feel your emotions, did I see your tears
I know I was aware of your inner fears

A void has opened, dare it be filled
Without you here I feel ever chilled
The silence surrounds me
Absence is no friend
To whom of my life did I so lend
The inner me that was once here
Now seeks to shed that inner tear
But the silence engulfs my by rote
As death emotes the silence emitted from my throat

Where are you now, do you see my fear
How can I continue knowing that you are not here?

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Betwixt the Lines

Betwixt the lines
Run the mines
of unharnessed love

Like an arrow through the heart
where does it stop, where does it start

How do you know what each day will hold
This day this year, please stop the cold

Through this darkness I see red
For my heart, it has bled

The pain of loss, the pain of sorrow
Shows us that life is something that we just borrow

Who am I and who are you
Where do we belong in this lifeless stew

I feel the light, but I do not see it
How am I ever supposed to be it

We are one I extol
You and I we share one soul

I feel your pain, I feel your sorrow
Together we will face the morrow

I’ll mop your brow, I’ll wash your feet
I’ll help you try to get some sleep

Let me love you, I’ll hold you in my caress
Tell me what can I do to make your pain less

I’ll dry your tears, I’ll hold your hand
together we’ll draw pictures in the sand

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The Truth Is In the Silence

Slowly I rise out of my dreams
As my loved one slumbers forth
so trusting, so peaceful in the night
I watch the rising of his breath
and delight in the closeness of his being
Here is the one, the man, the champion of my heart
Without this soul where are the boundaries of my heart -
where do they stop, where do they start?

This love, our love is endless
Like the summer breeze that cools you,
from the rising heat within
As you grasp the reality, the reason
The storm of the tempest that is passion
As he cares to glance my way
once again the fire in my heart soars madly
To think this is my love, this is real, this is true
The ferocity of my love moves like a storm
Ebbing and flowing like the tide
Always constant and vibrant, forever alive

As the stars in the sky shine and the
Moon glows with luminescence
So do the corners of my heart
When I feel the threads of your
outstretched love reach into my being
and stroke my inner soul with your unspoken touch
This silence of communication, this stillness
This is where the truth is....

How real and tender is that which is not said
That which is only felt, perceived as true
That emanates with a look for no-one else
but me and you
Within our silence we exist in our treasured truth
The truth of love, my blessed one,
The truth of life – and how I will always love you