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The Giant's Dream Jars

In the centre of the silence, a giant fills the space
He carries but a trumpet and a battered old suitcase
I watched with baited breath, the street was dimly lit
He puts the case upon the ground but holds on to his trumpet
His monumental hands unscrew a tiny little jar
The contents seemed to dance and swirl and glitter like the stars
He tips the foggy matter into his blowing device
Then pokes it through a window, I don't dare blink my eyes
The dream that he has captured, collected, then released
Now floating in the mind of  the reciever as she sleeps
The giant, big and friendly, satisfied his job complete
Picks up his battered suitcase and moves on to the next street


*I took inspiration from Roald Dahl's 'The BFG' book.


19th Jan 2012

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Dirty Love

So we came undone, stitch by stitch,
it's been far to long but the scars still itch.
Lies start to feed on a love I believed
was specifically designed and crafted for me.
Words once ingrained into our history,
scatter like petals from an over-plucked daisy.
Promised love danced on a breeze of deceit,
then lay with the trash and leaves on the street.
I almost reach down to gather it up,
to brush off the dirt, keep hold of the love.
A girl rushes by with a smile in her eyes,
steals all the love and I'm left with the lies.
I sink to my knees, embracing the ground,
I sense you beside me, you don't make a sound.
You just look so sad.
It's then that I know,
all I can do now,
is let you go.
But I know if I wait where I am, if I stay,
my heart will rupture as you walk away,
and though I am scared, shaking as I rise,
I can't let this last juncture fossilize,
into another moment where you think you win.
So I walk away first, my next chapter begins...

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Unzipped Lips

Meet me at the same place
Just for one last time
There's nothing left to lose now
For you were never mine
I tried to speak the words
I was to terrified to say
Seems I was right to fear
You've already turned away
You knew that I'd be angry 
Disallowed me to react
Responding to the fiction
Without hearing the fact
And if I really know you
I know when you chose to walk
You left a space wide open
To encourage me to talk
So I spoke the words I promised
That would never never my mouth
Because I believe that closure
Shouldn't hold a trace of doubt
I wanted you to know that
Every 'Love Ya' that I wrote
Was just some smoke and mirrors
For the real words gripped my throat
But now there's no prevention
The worst already walked through
I'm not afraid to tell you now
I think I've always loved you.


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My Dearest Friend

I wish you luck, my dearest friend
For I know the road ahead
Will smother you in hurt and pain
You'll drown in your regret

I wish you luck, my dearest friend 
I'll be here when you fall
To tell you that I told you so
Make sure you feel real small

I wish you luck, my dearest friend
After all he put me through
Now its your turn to feel his burn
And be discarded too

I wish you polio, my traitorous friend
The plagues too good for you
I hope you rot away, my friend
You suit that shade of blue.

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Girly Stones

These pink glassy stones 
Don't have any uses
If I run out of reasons
I'll make up excuses
They wallow in bowls
for pure decoration
and hated by every
man in the nation.


12th June 2011

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Shady

Did summer never really come
Or did I just not notice
Seasons feel the same to me
Locked inside your fortress
There's never leaves upon the trees
Yet you're cold enough to snow
No springtime buds of promise
As beneath you, nothing grows.

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Will You Carry Me

Will you carry me, as I have you,
Whether skies are grey or blue.
As time goes by and I grow older,
I fear my death will have no shoulder,
for me to lay and rest my head,
before I reach my final bed.
A last request, I don't ask much,
but please, give me one last touch,
just one last token of your love,
before I'm sent to God above.
Hold me proudly next to your ear,
and listen close, perhaps you'll hear,
me whisper 'thank you', sincerely.
I only ask you'll carry me.


18th August 2011

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Live For Danger

I never meant to love you, I never meant to care
I never meant to cross the line or change a thing, I swear
You never could call what we have a sordid, cheap affair
There's a faint reek of stagnation and confusion in the air

I always thought I knew you, you and I, we are the same
I'd laugh off jokes of romance and the daft things you proclaim
I don't know if my burning cheeks are cause by hope or shame
You keep your hand on mine to hold my fingers to the flame

I wonder how you do it, with warnings you should come
Chase the latest gambit to crush beneath your thumb
I fear you live for danger and have only just begun
I'll let you play me one last time, but please, 
Don't think you've won.

19th November 2011

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Me In Acrostic

Just trying to stand out instead
Of fitting in. I despise
Dishonesty. I'm a part-time dreamer.
I'm a full-time legend (well, full-time mother).
Everything I do, is in consideration of others.

Wish I'd never fallen in love. Wish
I wasn't an emotional haemophilliac.
Luck has nothing to do with all I've achieved.
Loving you made me this strong, this weak.
I wish I had a slower metabolism,
Afterall, being size zero aint all that.
Melancholic, nostalgic, psychadelic.
Sometimes I get tired of living up to other people's expectations.


21 July 2011

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The Friend

It is not often I give my time, be careful how you spend
the sacrificial tokens that I gave you as a friend.
I tried to help you see things from a crystal point of view
No matter how I magnify, all you see is you

You'de think I'd made a difference, all we have incurred
does nothing but cast shadows on my own distress and hurt
I'm nothing but an afterthought, a shoulder with an ear
But a time has come for you to see, I won't always be here

I won't be there to pick you up, piece by shattered piece
It's time for you to understand, what it's like to freeze
Be blanketless and naked and exposed for all to see
I protected you from days and nights of vulnerability

It kills me now to let you go, but you will always lack
the strength it takes to sustain me upon your selfish back
I thought that we were spherical, that we could NEVER end
Now it seems I fooled myself for calling you a friend