I’m Back

I’m Back

Where intimacy was a lie,

Where promises are broken,

Where love will always deny,

Where cruel words are spoken,

Where memories bring only pain,

Where hope lived but does not now,

Where hunger comes to rule again,

Where strangers ask who and why and how,

Where words, like forever, fail,

Where letters of feelings are burnt,

Where rosy cheeks grow cold and pale,

Where lessons of sorrow are learnt,

Where holding hands and drying tears

Are forgotten by unhappy hearts,

Where loving looks become fears

Where from all that mattered departs.

“As the Sun Wakes”

As the sun wakes,
Thunder and lightning
Blanket his face
And shut his shining.

Might as well!
This day will be the same:
Where I suffer our love –
And you forget my name.

Death

You seem dark;
People I love
Are afraid of you.
They do not
See you truly,
As poets do.

Those think of you
As a friend,
Some as a lover,
Some as an end.

For me you’re no god,
No gateway –
You are one who will
Never betray.