Poached Heart

You poached my wild heart

Watched it quiver on the plate

Contained in a fragile membrane

Gently cradled in your delicate hand
Ruptured by your silence

Masked Up

I shuffle away from their peals of approval

Drawing pleasure in drawing the blinds

Silencing joy in silencing the phone

Extinguishing delight in extinguishing the light

Indistinguishable 

Me

Barely

Recognisable 

But they'll remember my face

When I put on my mask

The one with the sad eyes

That made them laugh

Love & Patience

You're allowed to love me

What's holding you back?

They say love knows no boundaries

And I've pulled down mine

The obstacles are gone

No walls to climb

Except your own

Come on, take a peek

Unexplored fields await

And I wait amid the daisies

As long as the sun shines

I will wait until your eyes find mine

Once more and then

You will never lose me again

Losing Me

I've been spinning

Blindfolded

With hands on ears

Humming

I'm tripping and drowning

Out the noise

In my head

Oh the things they said

Below the belt

And off the cuff

Now roll up your sleeves

I'm-a-punching baggage

With the bruises to prove it

So you Think you can Dance

Emerging from the mist

Green blobs on browns sticks

Become trees

And the bird songs 

From the album called Life in Perfect Harmony

Drown out foreign voices

That chant against its rhythm 

And force me to dance to my own

While clumsily apologising

Every time 

I step on my toes

Leg-less Elevan

One-a-pill

Daffodil

Two-a-pill 

Three

Four-a-pill

Crazy still

Heaven help me

Five-a-pill

Time to kill

What a thrill

Seven

Eight-a-pill

All down hill

Heart be still

Eleven

Old Face New

Sometimes

You surprise me

Like an old dress

Hanging forgotten

Then rediscovered

And coincidentally

Current once more

But unlike the dress

I've worn you every day

Accustomed 

Rushing past mirrors

Never pausing to admire

Your stripes

And how lovely they are

Rattlin' & Rollin'

In her head the rattlin'

Senseless thoughts a-prattlin' 

And on her face the grapplin'

Smiles and tears a-battlin'

Every day the tacklin'

Her beaten body cracklin'

But don't you start a-dabblin'

For a pale horse she'll be saddlin'

Friend and Foe

The wind lead her here

To face familiar fear

It blows from behind 

Ushering her mind

She puts up a fight

But the wind's always right

It whispers console,

"Let me take control"

She surrenders her will

But fear remains still

Coiled like a vine

On her wit it will dine

"Trust in my reason"

Howls the wind without season

And off they flew

Into the fearless blue

Cured not Cured

Her heart has cured

A piece of pork

Fired

A clay pot

Set

Cold gelatine

Proved

A rising loaf

Turned

An oak leg

Irreversible