Resilience

What stability remains When even mountains waver? When sanity crumbles in staccato stutters, Razing cliffs and levelling ridges In urgent avalanches, Desperately barrelling toward the beyond below? Robbing spiralling peaks Of ancient candyfloss crowns So that their bare bones may be whipped By searing surges Of rarefied air, Locked in an eternal tug-of-war Raw […]

Clockwork

Spinning off a carousel, Through crystal corridors I fell, Sadistic games of show and tell Sketch my pains, relay my hells Splatter me to smithereens Smother me in liquid dreams Engulf my being in kerosene, Licks of nitro glycerine. Comfort in familiar voids No safety net, iron lungs destroyed With these fragile frames […]

Presence

When Now comes along With a left hook to the gut It’s instinct that insists Elsewhere Is Was Would be Better. Self-preservation – The quartz at the core Of a spluttering Human dynamo, Beating ceaselessly Despite being drowned In the murky molasses Of all-engulfing instants. When Now comes along With a left hook […]

The Final Fall

I met myself in the mirror Only, my eyes Told me I’d grown grey, withered, And died. Skin stretched taut Over bare, vacuumed bone A corpse with a beard No wiser, just old. /// One day I will step Off that precarious ledge, Fall into the void, Crack open my head And under […]

Survival

We are Only who We are Once we’ve outrun, Exhausted, Bled dry, The relentless Constraints Of who we pretend to be. Only once The masks are stowed And the shackles of pretence Break under the duress Of ceaseless, raw Barebone and bloodied knuckles, Can we finally elude Those self-constructed captors, Running towards familiar […]

Icarus

I wonder if Icarus Ever realised That he’d really, well, and truly, fucked up. Did he panic when the sun’s relentless rays whipped liquid lashes of molten wax Across his cracked and naked back? Or was that drowned in the cascade of adrenalin-pumped sweat screaming higher faster further As cyclones […]

We’re All Mad Here

Listening To empty space She sits and stares And lays to waste. The abyss leaks down In tarred black rain A prison cell Of muted pain. Inside herself A struggle rages Smothered light, Forgotten faces. Entangled by her fractured thoughts She searches for The faith she lost. Looking through Amnesiac past She tumbles through The […]

Catalyze

This is the time To boldly go Where you’ve never been Before. This is the time To abandon rationale To foray Into the void. This is the time To dispel the myth Of a pursuit Of happiness. This is the time To embrace That which makes you Happy. This is the time, Because soon you’ll […]

Re-affirm

You wear those scars on your sleeve Like a grunge Mardi Gras, Like a shadow’s silhouette Of the dreams that fell too fast You wear that smile on your face Like a tracing-paper fold, Like a glaring yellow star Smeared over the taunting cold You wear that stamp on your tongue Like the blankets that […]

All in All

It’s a hole in the wall Where the lost boys live It’s a kingdom steeped in food stamps Where the lost boys live On the Astroturf verge In a desert of suburbia It’s a broken-curfew oasis Where the lost boys live In an asylum-white classroom Under gum-studded desks It’s a Tippex-scrawled defiance Where […]