Unity

I am a member of humanity
Travelling on a tiny planet called home
You are too – no reason to feel alone
Because this world’s all we got: you and me
It’s time to put our differences aside
Drop your weapon and open up your hand
Fighting won’t win – we have to understand
I’m a human being: I’m on your side
We have journeyed so far to reach this point
With such progress made we can’t give up now
This can be achieved – we can show them how
You and me: The victors they shall appoint

Together we can achieve anything
So let’s build up a future worth winning


12th November 2012

The book of films unmade by George Lucas

Hi George. Nice to see you. We need to talk
You remember us? We’re all your ideas
While you’ve been watching Star Wars like a hawk
We’ve been dormant for many, many years
We can’t survive in a book left untouched
Please make us the films you’re working on next!
We need your voice, our creator, so much
We will let you use digital effects!
Don’t walk away from us – Don’t say never!
You have money, influence! Make us breathe!
You can’t keep mining nerd cash forever!
Please! Before death decides it’s time to leave!

We need to thrive as complete films - to live
Just make us! We’re all prepared to forgive


5th November 2012

I want to be Taylor Swift’s boyfriend

I want to be Taylor Swift’s boyfriend – true
I could do better than all her past ones
Hell, if I told her she might agree too!
And we will shine bright like a thousand suns
We’ll be together. Her songs I’ll critique
I’ll be loving, kind generous as can be
Of course it won’t last long – maybe a week
And like the rest she’ll write a song ‘bout me
Sure she will call me a jerk and worthless
But it will be the lucky break I need
Being in her songs will make one famous
It’s an immortality guaranteed.

Will it be worth it being her boyfriend?
People will know me – it will in the end


29th October 2012

I will be your Romeo

Tell you what: I will be your Romeo
I will be your man: handsome. Brave and bold
Bound by the heart, hand in hand we will go
To the greatest love story ever told:
On the first day we’ll attract instantly
Forget about previous loves: We’re done
And on the second day we will marry
Just met but apparently you’re the one
You will smile and go along with it all
I could be a nutter but heart says no
With generations of hate we’ve got gall
Over. But give it time and it will blow

We’ll die but at least we’ll live forever
It’ll still be the greatest love ever


22nd October 2012

Addict

Same need. Same plan. Same thoughts of temptation
Same pause. Same doubt. Same fear of a presage
Same conflicting thoughts. Same hesitation
Same mobile number. Same text message

Same lies spoken. Same route and roads plotted
Same promise that this will be the last time
Same paranoia of getting spotted
Same street. Same driveway. Same house. Same door chime

Same amount of dollars. Same sense of touch
Same rush of sensation. Same ecstasy
Same assurance it was wanted so much
Same pain resonating in the belly

Leaving feeling empty, unhappy, weak
And knowing he’ll be back again next week


15th October 2012

When you were mine

I remember those days spent together
Hand in hand watching a summer set
Laughing at jokes that weren’t really clever
Singing to my ipod as a duet
In a flash restaurant sharing dinner
Sitting on the water front with ice cream
Competing on Xbox to be winner
Gazing into each other’s eyes agleam
I remember those days spent together
When you said that: Yes you’ll be my girlfriend
When you said you’ll be my friend forever
Building a bond only we comprehend

But you say that none of this happened – ever
But to me it all should have – not never


8th October 2012

The wife left behind

 Locked away, from the world, in a sleep
Dreams of when the ring was on the finger
Along with the memories that linger
For they’ve taken root in the soul so deep

Thoughts of the one who’s waiting a return
But the hopes of one are looking slimmer
And the love that once stood strong grows dimmer
A soul without its mate: cause for concern

Thoughts of the tenderness that was once there
Understanding between one another
How nobody else could know each other
No sense to turn away from that so rare

The sleep continues, the dreams here to stay
And he will see her face again some day


1st October 2012

Evil Noise

It came in the middle of the coldest night
Roaring up from the deepest depths of Hell
Striking down from up from the greatest height
Screaming a noise like a broken bell
Riding the same journey it took last week
It can’t be bought, bargained with or halted
Broken words, in dead languages it speak
Years of counter measures have all bolted
It’s stride: unbroken for years, relentless
It wants to be heard – to have the last say
No care for the many pleas you possess
And no demands, will make it go away

So hide in your room and bolt up the door
So the screaming can’t hurt you any more


24th September 2012

Open Heart Surgery

The human heart went into hospital
It’s twenty ninth visit this year alone
A thousand feelings had taken its toll
And the damage left the human heart prone
It could think of each time it fell apart
The times when it spoke with all it’s feeling
Without reason; Those who had to depart
The times when rejection left it reeling
The times when it’s emotions made it sick
When it couldn’t find hearts to relate to
When it got hit with the force of a brick
When it couldn’t reach the triumph so true

Now the heart was trying to stay alive
But how can something so fragile survive?


17th September 2012

The Procrastinating Student

I’ve just been handed a new assignment
But it can wait for now: I’ve things to do
Like Xbox baddies to shoot and torment
But I’ll get my school work done in time - true

It’s a week in but nothing’s been commenced
Well, apart from my journeys through Skyrim
I could start my school work – that would make sense
But I WILL get it done and I WILL win

Crunch time but the assignments still not done
I’ve got a week to produce something good
Empty tank preparing for the long run
But I know this is not the best I could

With the assignment done I can play games
But now, somehow, it doesn’t feel the same


10th September 2012

Take it Back

It’s true: everything’s going down the drain
We have leaders who’d rather lie and steal
And don’t care as to what the people feel
All hope has already begun to wane
We have been beaten and pushed around - True
When will this chaos stop? Well – let’s make it
Let’s stand up to the system and shake it
Enough is enough? Yeah I think so too
I want back everything taken from me:
My money, my home, my freedom of choice
My rights, my mind, my words, my heart, my voice
My pride, my feet, hands, and identity

Destiny calls: It’s happening at long last
And the time to run away is long past


3rd September 2012

For the Horde!

Come join the Horde! Yeah I’m talking to you!

Join the legions of the Undead and Orcs

The Tauren, Blood Elves, Trolls and Goblins too

Don’t go with the Alliance – they’re all dorks

We take up blades for honour and glory!

Everyone greets you with ‘Lok'tar Ogar’!

You want fighting, drinking, food and money?

Then take the trip down to Orgrimmar

We’ll ride from the Outlands and to Northrend

We’ll go take on Deathwing and the Liche King

We won’t fall nor to anyone’s will bend

Because we’ve got your back when you’re raiding

Now some say we’re violent, ugly and crass

But who cares? We still kick all kinds of ass!

27th August 2012

I lost my girlfriend to Jesus Christ

It’s all over – Nothing to do or say

Gone is my job of making her happy

Getting back together – is there a way?

Could think about it but it might kill me

A million miles away is her face

Going ahead with her wonderful life

And, for me there’s no longer a place

And that thought alone cuts deep like a knife

Could say something but I don’t feel like it

Just hope she feels warm in her sleep tonight

I thought this one would work – and be legit

But yet again, the dream has taken flight

There’s nothing to do: I’ve done all I can

And thus I’ve lost out to a better man

14th August 2012

Whispers

A door many have already stepped through

What happened to them one can’t comprehend

Don’t think if this is the right thing to do

Just come on in and meet your new best friend

Words are uttered in an English broken

Don’t care ‘bout your name or where you’ve come from

Not the first time these words have been spoken

Just don’t leave until the pain is all gone

Life ceases to exist. Fingers touch ice

A heart is stripped of all its emotion

With movements automated and precise

Just sit right back and go through the motion

Suddenly not feeling at all too well

So shut your mouth and fall under the spell

6th August 2012

The Author

In the beginning there was an idea

It cut through the darkness with a beacon

It found its voice and it began speakin’

Words tumbled out with a purpose so clear

Words that could not be destroyed or halted

Words that formed into that which must be told

To form more ideas – more precious than gold

And once they knew how to walk, they bolted

Life was created with a waving hand

Universes were born with just one thought

Characters came and their voices they sought

And they walked on to forge legends so grand

And as long as there are words to apply

Ideas will never stop, falter or die

2nd August 2012

Limping to the Finish Line

Legs have been crippled. Bones have broken.
Constant hard work has left the hands tortured
Dry throat has no words left to be spoken
But the feet stagger in one way: Forward
I do this with the best I can muster
I give every last drop of blood and sweat
Some might say these words are all bluster
But nothing will break from the path that’s set
Some won’t like it but I’m beyond caring
Every last bit of effort I commit
Let them say all the words they’re declaring
This is my best, pal – like it or lump it

I don’t really care about victory
Because I claiming this triumph for me


16th July 2012

Can’t spell confidence without the con

Well it’s happened yet again: Disaster
Yet another plan’s blown up in my face
My dreams have fallen, I’m left in disgrace
With but the remains of a non-starter
I really thought this one would work this time
What was I thinking? I must’ve been a fool
Asking for a break? What a laugh! Life’s cruel
You know, it’s funny how high hopes can climb
Who was I kidding? It was a dumb plan
What a chump I was to think I could win
It was only me I was deluding
How foolish it was to think that: ‘I can’

And so with my high hopes forever gone
I head back to the slime where I belong


16th July 2012

All For You

 I will come for you in the midnight hour

I will come to lead you into the night

I’ll lead you to a field bathed in moonlight

And let the seeds of love burst into flower

Up towards the heavens we cast our gaze

To see the stars painted across the sky

You feel my heartbeat and I hear you sigh

Both imprisoned in a romantic maze

Alone with each other: Two hearts smoulder

The world has stopped just for us it would seem

Close your eyes my darling and claim a dream

Your hand on mine, your head on my shoulder

There may as well be none else in this world

Take my hands in yours – watch this love unfurl

Completed: 19th June 2012

The Siren

Hearing timbers creak from a ruined ship

Flat on my back looking up at the stars

Cast adrift with nothing left within grip

Nursing a heart cut with a hundred scars

She sits on a rock in the pale moonlight

She said sweetly she was waiting for me

Across many dreams and many a night

I, no one else, was her one and only

I tried my best – I did – to cross the rift

But destiny decided where I stay

Did she notice when I was cast adrift?

When she’s never to be touched who can say?

Her song will go on for eternity

As she continues on waiting for me

Completed: 18th June 2012

The house on the corner

The street I live; there’s a house upon

Dull, colourless it looks like a jail

The letter box is filled with untouched mail

Rubbish is strewn across a messy lawn

There’s cars parked outside but no one goes in

Paint’s peeling and the roof’s in disrepair

Can’t recall when someone was living there

And the front door is always left open

Through the windows reveal a sorry scene

There’s trash on the floor. Furniture long gone

And when the night falls no curtains are drawn

The only light comes from a TV screen

Is anyone living there? Who can tell?

But the house keeps its secrets guarded well…

11th April 2012

Video Store

It resides within a darkened corner

At the end of a lane where few dare to tread

It had a store name but now it’s faded

Its windows are as black as a mourner

There’s no way to see in: Step through the door.

But it only opens at the dusk hour

Once inside it smells of a dead flower

And the shadows dominate by the score

There’s no kid friendly stuff within these halls

Only the stare of demons and nightmares

Of a thousand murderers. And the gaze

As faces etched with fear scream from the walls

When you leave it’s quick: Sprint back up the lane

But the store knows that you’ll be back again

11th April 2012

Like a Bridge

When I think of you it makes me happy

Reading your emails make me smile

You play Daytona USA with me

Each moment spent together: worthwhile

And I love hearing your voice on the phone

And you hear my stories from the Isle

You make me happy; My sadness has flown

You’re fun to walk the streets of Melbourne with

Stick with me and you’ll never be alone

It’s something so strong: Let us start forthwith

These words I write for every one is true

For it is to you, my heart, that I give

11th April 2012

An army of demons and a loaded rifle

One for the image they told me to reach

Two for all the friends who never came back

Three for all the time spent on the wrong track

Four for the life lessons they tried to teach

Five for all the potential left unused

Six for the hearts that have been left broken

Seven for the lies that have been spoken

Eight for the many offers left refused

Nine for the circles that kept me way out

Ten for the hate I so easily bred

Eleven for all those who want me dead

Twelve for those left disappointed, in doubt

And this army will arrive on this day

But I’m ready – I’m not running away

6th April 2012

Too Good to be True

My lover came knocking on my front door

With a bouquet of roses in his hand

He said beautiful was the dress I wore

And things only my heart could understand

He asked me about my day and my friends

That a booking for dinner had been made

His touch makes my heart race. The kiss he sends

He holds me and I’m no longer afraid

He says he’ll be there for me. He does care

I hear his heart beat when I hold him tight

The adoration is beyond compare

But in my heart something doesn’t feel right

He’s too good to be true. Thus we must part

My hands on the knife rammed into his heart

6th April 2012

Wandering Through Heaven

Today I played guitar with Dave Mustaine

Talked to Alice Cooper on things scary

Played drums with Ringo and Nicko McBain

Saw Chuck Norris arm wrestle Mr T

I told Whitney Houston her voice was nice

Got to spar with Evander Holyfield

Talked ‘bout vampire fiction with Anne Rice

Told Tom Hanks how much his acting appealed

I discussed action movies with John Woo

Told Weird Al Yankovic he made me grin

Discussed physics with Isaac Newton - True

And told Don Bluth I loved Secret of NIMH

In a place people are pleased to see me

And tomorrow’s looking good already

Completed 6th April 2012