poetry

you weren’t mine to lose

I know how it feels to stand alone on pale sand, watch the tide retreat further…
Breakdown

I blame you.I blame you for all of this. What can you really expect from children…
Fresh

The first thing I did was change the sheets;you know that crisp bed linen has always…
HEA

…and they lived happily ever after,except when they didn’t. The kissbeside the Opera House sails, himholding…
those of us that live in our heads tend to be overthinkers

Darling, you can imagineuniversesin vivid colour,their soundtracks and odours,where others see only adjectives.Is it any wonder…
in my shoe

you tell meit’s just a grain of sandminutenothinginconsequentialwhy must i always make mountains out of molehills?but…
a better reason to write you

I can write youpretty proseon demand or by request(I’d like to think I’m reasonably artistic with…
ghost

My pretty ghost, I wish I didn’t wonderwhere you’d flown, but at leastit’s not for the…
5

I never doubted that I was loved, but perhaps I doubted that it was unconditional.You always…
Radiotherapy

Wear black to my funeral.It’s not that I want you to mourn,may my funeral be a…
Floriography

Flowers were not your native language.Clumsy conversations, and mixed metaphors. Symbolic depth was lost on youas…
forever or I’ll never

You know I never thought that highly of myself,more aware of flaws and faults than any…
What makes you happy?

He asks what makes me happy, and I don’t intend to sass him, but the autism…
The greatest of these things

I live in absolute certainty of your good opinion,the safety of your love is a mug…
White Horse

I sing along with her, that this is not a fairy tale,and I am not your…