Mind

Reach you hands inside
What are they trying to find?
An opening, open enough

Slide your nails inside
My mind where I'm trying
To lie.

Run my fingers
Through your hair
Will I find the answers there?

Star shaped mystery
Fall. Unwind.
Lost in a forgotten
Memory of time
When you and I 
Fell in line


Run your eyes
Around the room
There'll be nothing 
Left here soon

A hairs breadth
The line is fine
Tomorrow doesn't exsist
So if you don't
I don't
Mind

Housework

The grass is worn away
Where laughing children play
My hair is pulled right back
And rolled sleeves show no slack
Washing goes from grey to white
As the sky goes from grey to bright
The vacuum growls as the mop squeaks
And like my moaning back the floor creaks
Dishes rinsed, wiped and in a line they shine
Now the rest of this sunny day is mine

Bus Stop (for Kath)

Waiting at a cold bus stop
Wondering when the rain will stop
Chewing thoughts just like gum
Not just waiting for the bus to come

Cigarette in hand, but no light
Got a lot of energy but no fight
Thinking I need someone to talk to
Hoping that someone will be you

I'd walk across the city bare feet
As long as I had a decent beat
I'd make it to where you are
Without wheels, or a car

Coz that's how determined I am
Always doing for you whatever I can
I don't know if you're waiting
Or even if you've anticipation

It's been a long week without you
When I say I miss you, I truly do
I wish it was as simple as in dreams
But apon closer look it's never as it seems

But sooner or later, I hope you'll come home
You must know that in my heart you belong

Static

Static, static
It's in my brain
Flickering, switching
On and off

Static, a flashing
Crackling there and gone
My mind in pieces
My mind is blown

I see you clearly
Then you're gone
Memories, conversation, name
No longer known

The sound, the sight
The feelings all at once
One moment you're alive
Next minute body dead

Like someone's tripped the power
And you lost 8-10 hours
You wake up like you're beaten
You'll be battered and bruised
Exhaustion make it hard breathe
And all you do is sleep

Coming back around is new
You have no idea what to do
People ask you questions
And you don't know what is true.


This is a piece about how it feels to have epilepsy.

Rain. Down.

I hear the soft spring rain fall
Bathing the plants
In a gentle rehydration
From the days scalding heat

It leaves footprints on my window
And paw prints on my floor
I hear it dripping from the eaves
It rains, it doesn't always pour

Tiny droplets formed up high
Rhythmically falling from the sky
Like the sound of beating drum
First splash heard, here they come

Raining down impartially
Falling on you as much as me
Clinging to leaves in trees
Filling up over-flowing seas

Running down your jaw line
Dampening corners of your mind
Puddles grow awakening mud
In gutters little streams like blood

Falling through the teeth of a grate
Coming back together in a messier state
Flowing down to where, who knows?
Below the surface, many rivers flow

The Noose (2010)

Can't stop crying, laying
Making myself bleed
I got to bed zoned
Just to make myself sleep

I relentlessly attack my face
With words to slice through
Thoughts that make me angry
Thoughts of lies from you

Forever? More like never
And certainties are sure
To certainly never happen
Just like they did before

I wanted to believe it
I willed it to be true
But what a hopeless fool I am
To believe it could come from you!

I watched your ways of life
Ways to pass it by
Things you did to forget things
How did I miss inevitable lie?

You said you never wronged me
But this is not the truth
Yes, I chose to put my head in
But you Sir, made the noose.

Song Needing Sung

Ah! Can't sleep with that noise
Plus many quiet thoughts 'bout boys
String two lines together, it's begun
This is the only way this song gets sung

Stuff inside my mind trying to escape
Some of it's partly broken down too late
It seems like it'll be stuck there always
Who says that crime doesn't pay?

It just uses a slightly different currency
You ain't even started to see what I see
I've been rhyming for a while now
Yet I still ain't learned how to give it wow

Lifes what it needs, your beating drum
It needs a voice, song needing sung
Your eyes skip a line down this page
My heart skips a beat as I engage

The noise inside my walls and brain
The sound that drives me more sane
Sane is far from where you are
I have travelled wide and far

Only in my dreams you know
For that is where real travellers go
It doesn't cost you this planets coin
Not even a members club to join

You can't get told, can't get sent
You'll always know when you've been and went
I feel sleep washing over it seems
It's time to swim in my sea of dreams