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Secret Lover

Suffusion of sadness so tender,
What I yearn for lies inside.
In bed you await me,
Together we will hide

from those who think we have a choice 
Or that one day you'll be gone. 
Believe you to be transient
A bus I can hop off and on! 

I marvel at the swell of you
So familiar yet never the same
I know you'll never leave me
Nor your power ever wane. 

In bed I shiver with anticipation 
For you're my only truth 
All else is farce, and only in your arms 
Can I cry as I did in youth. 

Accepting life would mean losing you 
So that line will never be crossed. 
Pain, my faithful, constant lover, Pain:
 All that remains from what I've lost.

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All In a Day

Ceaseless demands
each one a folly
To which I respond
 my answers jolly
Lesson time
Minds are weary
Endless chopping
Meals so  healthy
Shopping ordered
Food a plenty
Excursion time
To burn the energy
Fall from tree
call emergency
Lost child
Panic temporary
Sibling bickering
I Chide impatiently
Bath time soon
Wet  and slippery
Brushing teeth
No help from me
Each to sleep,
Cuddling frenzy
Stealthily creep 
To bed with mummy
Waking together
Hour so early
Getting dressed
Uniform ready
Breakfast now
Clothes grubby
An hour to spare
Time to go crazy
I love to join in
Childish levity
Forget the time
Need to be hasty
Unbrushed hair
That’s got sticky
Scramble for bags
For each activity
Unkempt they go
To school so happy.

T`was all in a day, but a day long gone.
Though in that house
 Shadows of our former selves,
Forever shall live on.



William kekaula  all in a day 09/09/2020

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Treading Water

My flesh is screaming,

if the cancer is me,

Then cut me out

and set me free.

No more to endure

The sight of the shore,

While drowning capsized out at sea.

 

If I let myself go,

limbs aching and slow,

So close to that shore,

Then no more I’ll know

Of those I have missed

Of faces unkissed

Of drowning in tears of sorrow

 

But to them I will pass,

a pain that will last

Forever they’ll sail,

B’neath skies overcast.

A hurt so deep

A pain they'll keep,

My drowning will anchor them fast.

 

So tethered am I

to what I'm denied,

A childless mother

I must abide

By rules so cruel

Yet love is the fuel

And from drowning I shall not have died.

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Mirage

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Mirage

With eyes as parched as the desert I travel,
I thirst for my loss, yet do not unravel.
The sun it scorches with merciless rays,
Though heart not skin it brutally flays.

My life before me: a vast expanse,
Empty and scorched infernal sands.
Traveller dropped in foreign terrain,
Totally wrecked, blindsided by pain.


‘Not all is lost’, swears false apostle,
So now I believe, for relief so colossal
Gleams right ahead in sparkling silver,
Joy so intense, my tears form a river:

Our faces awash, in joy so sublime,
I feel such hope, imagining what's mine
Returning to me. That long cool sip
Shimmers ahead, into relief I'll dip

A desire so great. I count the days,
Striving to reach that scintillating haze,
So full of promise, till deceived I fall -
Nature lies too. Still their names I call.

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Anorexia

The soundless scream of my tortured pain,

The story of which I cannot explain.

Ashamed of my needs, yet I want them met,

Manipulative, deadly, pointless threat.

Blind is the audience, macabre is my dance,

Forced to perform by a body in trance.

 

Those gilded rays that pierce the skies,

Striking gold clouds that light up our eyes,

Lancing their radiance down to earth,

Who am I to ask what life’s worth?

 

Surely, will I in time comprehend

This punishing life that I never penned:

This tree that snakes out endless roots

Invading its prey to leave poisonous fruits?

 

Love and joy calcified in my veins,

Stuck in a rut of regret and pain,

I tear at my flesh to uproot the tree,

I can no longer: the tree is me.

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Jl

Superstitious tongues childhood blights
Exorcisms and voodoo fill his nights 
A cursed birth, a an evil within
Only he knows that the devil is him

How else can a child so bright 
Make sense of such a plight? 
No spell can cast his evil out
But leaves him scarred 
and in no doubt

That those who care are mistreating him:
Youthfulful belief had him filled with fear
Now he knows that those he held dear
Saw only the power his shadow could weild
Untramelled knew not his mind is a sheild

hes the founder of a design business lo and behold! 
Recessions see it fail, misery round the world
But each time  anew, his charismap so bold
 Saw business and enterprise for him  unfold

"Mind razor sharp 
Strategy got me through 
Both violence and crime
And a degree or was it two.

The devil within had a different plan
Twas but disease afflicting the man 
Who every adversity had over come
Stronger than me, not a single one 


" I fought for my place
 I fought to the top
Even when hopeless
I fought left to rot

They can take it all:
faith in my father
 hollow loyalty
Gone is my eye but
never clearer I see:

No place on earth now
Is safe for me, trusting and
Loving no more I allow
Family and friends I disavow

To live is to sufffer 
And pain has no end. 
Trials far tougher
Just round the bend

Now love turns to hate
As delusions grow
My hurt so great
Hurt I cause less so


Promise of tomorrow? 
,  that I have none
No feelings of sorrrow
Just safety of my gun

 Behold and shiver! 
My venimous rage
 a deadly viper
... I spring from cage

My tongue whip smart
Knows just what to do 
A future in which I'll play no part

Or so I thought but things do cbange
What I did is done, but life is strange 
And the carnage I caused can be erased.

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All At Sea

Oh how I wish I wasn’t me,
Buta glorious master of the sea,
Whose sails  have caught a steady wind
but I've dropped anchor
for I have sinned
 


Judgement now must soon be cast,
Much longer here I may not last,
As sky and sea start to encroach
Clouds build and gather
In dark reproach.

I turn my gaze at human kind
So much to love in them I find.
Deftly around the rocks they steer
Helping the ones that stray too near.

As do the souls that pass me by, 
they fear my death and so they try;
They do not know, they cannot see
The anchor’s lodged in the soul of me

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To the End

Mind is racing 
 
Limbs are aching 
 
I feel the end is nigh 
 
All alone in night unending 
 
Time a torturous lie. 
 
 
 
Brain fermenting 
 
Thoughts fragmenting 
 
Shatter in glass shards 
 
Fingers soon to dust returning 
 
Hold fast my deck of cards 
 
 
 
Fear is mounting 
 
Heart is pounding 
 
I know the end is nigh 
 
My sight long gone, still I see 
 
Those shards light up the sky 
 
 
 
Children laughing 
 
Old friends calling 
 
From a distant shore 
 
Mem’ries of a life unsparing 
 
And a time that is no more 
 
 
 
The time it passes, 
 
through the darkness 
 
With teeth so sharp pain bites 
 
Missive from cassandra spinning 
 
Prophecy I cannot fight. 
 
 
 

Life and loving 
 
True belonging 
 
No more need I pretend 
 
Gave life a go, decried its blows, 

My hand I played to the very end.

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New Beginnings

Now once again this pain so raw,
End so abrupt, the parting so sore,
Wanting but failing to force open the door.

Breathing is laboured, gone is my healh
Each part of me stolen forever by stealth.
Grimacing with pleasure, that gargoyle face,
Inventing the need my past to disgrace,
Never revealing its purpose, nor why,
Naked the flame of hope left to die . 
It’s hard to believe that I still stand,
Not brave, not strong but surely damned.
Gave it my all, till it all fell apart
Still I survive, so again I shall start.

 27/01/21

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Denial

Night time rituals, that little space of time,
Cathartic relief, along with sweat and grime,
Tribulations of the day wash away, too,
Pool down the sink hole, tomorrow starts brand new.

Night time rituals, bring with them repose:
Weary souls long their weary eyes to close.
Strange to remember, I once felt that way,
Now pain too hard to overcome must still be kept at bay.
So, from night time rituals and sleeping I abstain,
Wild is the gallop of a mind that's slipped its reins.
Sleep is when it gets me, I run for my life,
Run from myself, dreams twisting like a knife.

Drumroll in my ears 
Signal danger nears:
Like an arrow I am off, 
No spluttering nor cough,
Scaling each fence,
I revel in my strength,
But the faster I go
More obstacles grow.
Hidden in tall grass, 
Bold as brass,
I'll rip him asunder
The hunted now the hunter.
Exhilarating chase across a ravaged mind
Preyed upon so long, soon now I shall find...

A bench so familiar, leers into view,
"A wooden resting bench" but now there’re quite a few, 
Important, sure, to someone, but that person is not me,
Misfiring neuron in my psyche
I wake up happy, I love to push my body,
Even in dreams, I'm proud of my dexterity.

Doubts creep in, so stealthily at first,
Recalcitrant swimmer who slowly must immerse
In waters so freezing she could die from shock
Can't bear it any longer, I'm diving off the block.

First hits dread
Limbs made of lead 
Wasted muscles
Unsteady shuffles
Rasping breath
I'd rather death 
Than be pushed around 
Wheelchair bound.
Cruel apparition
Subconscious admission
That from my dream those benches
In reality, are trenches,
Where bloodied I fall
No further steps at all,
Scrambling up a battle
My body just will not tackle.

But my own will grown so strong
I'm toldl I’m hearing wrong,
That I won't mend
I cannot, will not, comprehend.