My Parents

I help my mother with the week’s shopping
It’s from me that she knows what we all need
I get out the food she needs for shopping
Whilst she drives me around at top speed
When I tell a joke she thinks it’s funny
And she encourages all my writing
My father and I like to watch TV
We find the action movies just the thing
I help in his acts of home improvement
And he teaches me all about driving
We both go up mountains of steep ascent
And spend the weekends going kayaking

No, I don’t hate my parents – like I should
Because one day they’ll both be gone for good


30th December 2006

Make Me Smile

My love, you will always be beautiful
You will never tarnish, decay or fade
Deep within my heart you will always rule
You bring in light where once was only shade
My love, you will always make me happy
You’ll always pick me up when I’m down
Your mere presence makes me want to be me
And to see no reason to wear a frown
My love, together always we should be
Regardless of what anyone else might say
It has and always will be you, you see
I wouldn’t have it any other way

My love, I want always to be with you
Because no one else can do what you do


30th December 2006

What I Like About You

I write down these words for your eyes to see
About a true, strong bond set to endure
So you'll know how special you are to me

You arrived when I felt like a failure
Wanting to know all you could about me
With an intention so noble and pure

You make me smile, cry and laugh loudly
You don't look down on me nor turn your back
You just love being in my company

You banish all my inner demons black
You make me happy every single day
You show a concern that never falls slack

You bring the best in me out and away
You're someone I can be myself around
You crush any myth I create or say

You have brought, within me, a change profound
And ever since that day that we did meet
Everything's getting better as I've found

I hold your hand, and my heart skips a beat
I kiss your lips and fireworks ignite
I pull you close, emotions with heat

And even when you brought me a strength so bright
I see I've brought about a change in you
An enlightening change, powerful in might

I see that who you really are - so true
I see that I've been making you happy
I see I'm the friend you've been wanting too

I see I slay thoughts of feeling lonely
I see I can chase your fears far away
And I see you enjoy being with me

Failings are ignored for strengths bright as day
In the name of having someone to yearn
So a bond, both different and same, can stay

You are the light to make my sadness turn
I'm the light to banish your emptiness
To adore and be adored in return


1st October 2006

Iris

Waiting at a bus stop in pouring rain
Looking back at the emptiest of streets
In a shelter made of grey concrete plain

Sitting on a grey bench of seats
On the most miserable Sunday morning
Alone with a destination to meet

A bus then arrives with it's door yawning
I then choose a seat when all are empty
Then through the rain, it grinds without warning

Eventually dropped off in the city
Through the rain I walk - past things to ignore
For there's a certain house waiting for me

Upon finding it, I knock at it's door
Before confronting a pair of blue eyes
Gazing at me with an intense implore

All defenses crumble - here is my prize
Bearing a purity no one else can touch
It all falls down with the sweetest of sighs

Within my hand beauty is all I clutch
A strong love untainted is all I see
With a wanting I must heed oh so much

The world stops turning. Time ceases to be
Within this deep ocean, I willingly drown
Into intoxication so pretty

I won't refuse this nor will I back down
Instead I'll submit to this emotion
For my princess, I present a gold crown

Melting away with intimate motion
All feeling gives way for love so pure
Fair lady, give me my drug, my potion


30th September 2006

Dear Friend

Debating which anime girls we like
Talking lots about Final Fantasy
Prattling on fun stuff endlessly
Exchanging words understood by our psyche
Urging the other in the written word
Seeing only where the other brightly shines
Supporting each other in troubled times
Sharing loud laughter at all things absurd
Encouraging the other in romance
Providing whatever help when in need
Believing that the other can succeed
Who cares if this was a product of chance?

Caring naught for any differences
For strength in friendship commands the senses


29th September 2006

Songbird

The songbird sings the loveliest of tunes
With a voice confident, knowing and fine
Proclaiming the most delicate of lines
Made up with words to make anyone swoon
The songbird listens to all that I say
She listens to each word attentively
She always seeks new words to come from me
Whether they be white, black or shades of grey
The songbird keeps saying I could do better
She tells me to do so with honest eyes
And to such a challenge I gladly rise
Some friendly competition? I’ll let her

So I write words for the songbird to read
It’s her world that requires such a need


28th September 2006

Suicide

I want to enter an eternal rest
I want to forget the feeling of pain
I want the nightmares in my mind to leave their nest
I want to cease trying to live again
I want it all to end before I go insane
I want an end to feelings of being a flop
I want to everything to stop


28/09/2006

The Feeling of Love

It’s the warmth that radiates within you
It’s a connection no one else can touch
It’s a feeling everyone wants so much
It’s knowing that someone cares deep for you
It’s knowing what one feels without speaking
It’s doing things that make you feel so good
It’s enjoying life with someone - like one should
It’s an acceptance one’s always seeking
It’s the warmth of a hand one wants to clutch
It’s saying the most beautiful of words
It’s singing a better tune than the songbirds
It’s something that goes far beyond mere touch

It’s a sense of compassion like no other
Shared only with the one called your lover


28th September 2006

She Makes My Day

She brings the sunshine when I’m feeling low
She makes all the rain clouds disappear
She creates the warmth to make my heart glow
She tells me all the words I want to hear
She makes me want to run, dance, smile and sing
She banishes away my misery
She gives me love because it’s the best thing
She makes everyone else green with envy
She makes me feel like I don’t need money
She just provides a pure heart to adore
She makes me richer than all men I see
She holds my hand – And who could ask for more?

I’ll tell it to the world, within this verse
I’ve the best girlfriend in the universe


24th August 2006

The Fable of the Racist

Come gather ‘round children, it’s time you learned
About a man who promoted pure hate
Heed my words and this fable that I state
About a racist and the people he spurned
The man hated those different from he
He thrived on contempt and creating fear
Whilst his motivations were left unclear
Reasons didn’t matter as he could see
He got others into playing his game
He wanted all looking like him – the fool
Sharing this world was unacceptable
Black, Yellow, Brown, Red, They were all the same

He got kicked in the nuts – Enough to swell
But there was nothing to hurt – just as well!


24th August 2006

Another Love Poem

Everything is clear. There are no mistakes
Emptiness finds a fulfilment so true
Long dormant emotions begin to wake
There is now so much to see, touch and do
And every day shall bring along something new
The sun is shining brighter than before
And this is what the heart's been waiting for


25th August 2006

Wayfarer

Breaking down boundaries of exploration
Seeing as many things as possible
Meeting a giant number of people
Influencing lives towards succession
From many cultures, picking up so much
Discovering new methods and thinking
Going where no one else will be going
Always finding something new to see, touch
Encountering evil in many forms
Just for the underdog, prepared to fight
Even when winning can’t always be right
So someone small can see many more dawns

There’s no one else doing this type of thing
Of defying laws of adventuring


25th July 2006

Space Mission

Abandon the cradle that is the Earth
For there’s nothing down there that’s left to see
Ignore the tireless pull of gravity
To fulfil a dream wanted since mankind’s birth
Move forward. Don’t look back. Aim for the stars
Cast a strong line into the big black sea
With an alliance with technology
And a goal to spread out ever so far
Move with the spirit of a pioneer
Into an ocean that’s sought out this sign
A realm that’s been waiting for a long time
For mankind’s steps into this wide frontier

It is time to walk with feet well off the ground
Once Man was lost. Now he is truly found


25th July 2006

How am I Going to Do This?

I’ve got to get up and take on the world
Day after day after day in this life
With no instructions on how to survive
And without any support to be held
No one can see me, I must walk alone
Following rules no one else will reveal
With no clue how to look, act, speak or feel
I fail where I must succeed on my own
No one’s willing to lend a helping hand
There’s no indication where I go wrong
I need help but it doesn’t come along
So I’m left crawling whilst breathing in sand

Lead me to the rock higher than myself
Because I just can’t do it by myself


8th July 2006

Affirmation

I believe I can get through this life
That I can try my hand at anything
I believe I can face it all and win
And I won’t be brought down by any strife
I believe I can wield such strength rightly
I’ll use it for furthering my own goals
I believe I can make my own damn roles
And let no one else shape my destiny
I believe I can crush adversity
I will allow nothing to stand in my way
I believe in anything that I say
Simply because it’s right only for me

With these words I build a confidence true
So no, I will not shut up just for you


8th July 2006

Walk the Road of Damnation

Another step taken upon this road
Journeying further to oblivion
Can’t ignore the doom of destination
Carrying a forever growing load
Following plans that were doomed from day one
Cursed with a destiny never wanted
By past demons eternally haunted
With atrocious mounting by the tonne
Couldn’t change if I tried – All just too hard
Prospects of redemption are just for fools
Once a bastard? Hell, always a bastard
Always forward. Not backwards. It’s the rule

No use escaping damnation you know
So I march to the one place I can go


8th July 2006

The Succubus

She came from the depths of hell just for me
She brought along her taste for black leather
With a bust oversized and a voice sexy
And a want for me, for her own, forever
I made no complaints I simply agreed
But only upon the terms that I say
So, with her all too willing to concede
I forced her into liking anime
I showed her how to love high football scores
I taught her to play Soul Calibur 3
I introduced her to my Labradors
I made her listen to my poetry

And in the end she took my soul from me
With no protest, it was all too easy


7th July 2006

Not all of the Damned wear black leather

What a miserable life it’s been: born lame
Without the essential skills to survive
And with no excuse to be kept alive
And then came the devil to stake a claim
Got to be the bad guy: the rules dictate
Must abide even when they keep changing
Just can’t argue destiny’s arranging
There’s no escaping the ultimate fate
Sneered at for sunshine, goodness and heather
Squashed down upon for a kind attitude
Bearing an appearance that some find rude
And damnation’s meant to make it better?

Faced by the world with an eternal frown
There’s no where left to go but down, down, down


17th February 2006