TROJAN HEART
Tired of Trojan horses
Just slay me
Open field
With your battalion
draw your sword
At a gallop
On your stallion
Call your soldiers
From my castle walls
I'll stand down snipers
In the turrets tall
Pull the marksmen
Pointed arrows
Drain the moat
Expose the shallows
Love dressed like Lucifer
sang serenade
warm my blood
dripped from his blade
PATIENCE
Misplaced anger, I am not your humble servant for we are equal here
There is no miscarriage of justice
There is no love lost
There is only prideful lions rebuke
I love you still in my banished state
We reached inside each other,
pulled everything out but you were not ready to vanquish your pain
To look at yourself in my mirror,
upon reflection
Pre existing wounds uncovered
The magnificent truth of you lies on the other side of this grudge, this impasse
For this is not the impasse between you and I
It is the wall you have put between yourself and tomorrow.
I loved you from the end the start
When time was lost
When love was art
Through shadow sparkle ticking stop
Touched your colours vibrant pulse
I sang to you
I held your light
When night was day
When day was night
I LOVED YOU
Tumble turns and unmarked lanes
Waves that form lap concrete trays
Pull bodies weight from stainless stair
Wind whips warm across your flesh
Climb the ladder, approach the drop
Feet first? Dive? Turn and stop
Pervay the panoramic view
Falling forward palms in prayer
crystal blue captures your stare
Pulled down deep
Slice Silent water
breathe escapes
Living order
Sun rays shine in dappled prisms
Surface beckons your body risen
Refreshed anew from exploration
Sound returns airborne vibration
Gleaming hot the stainless steel
Ignore the burn reach for the rail
Climb the ladder once again
lift yourself through measured pain
water beading off your brow
to the high board into the now
stand alone and dive down deep
into the core of you you seep
THE DIVER
SILVER GLASS
Focus forward still your eyes
image blurs and shutter stops
gentle press ‘click clack’ surrender
winding on next frame in sight
Light erases lines and shadows
saturation bleeds in time
Captured moment lasts forever
Resolution truth is mine
Paper edges, silver glass
red light, dark room, far from you
Teddy bears and cardboard boxes
Plain and honest rare and true
I LEFT HER
I left her in your arms
Enveloped by her warm embrace
Nutured between crossroad and indecision
Catering to every whim
through fear and favour
trailing her fingers through your hair
across your back
picking up the slack
I left her yearning for your love returned
Love that burned
passion fuelled she kept in turned
comforting and pleasant smile
hiding parts you could not handle
Facets grown beyond your mettle
insight you were not ready to see
I left her there for you, for me