I Imprisoned Me

All the emotion in the world
Entombs me right now
They have caught me in a fashion
In a prison of worry and fear
I have shackles of anxiety
Fetters of intense shame
Around my neck is padlocked sorrow
And chains of stress link them all
I'm in this cell where you see me now
Made of tears and sweat and blood
Only a barred window murmurs freedom
But it's too far and too beyond
My chains don't stretch that far
Too be able to see out of it
Though there is a dim light, sunlight
There is a ray of hope there
And its name is belief in myself

Cat and dog

Laugh at me
Said the cat to the dog
Laugh at me
And tell me why I'm fat
Said the dog to the cat
What on earth?
Shut up you idiot
And eat your food before I do.

Rite of Passage

I'm not the woman you used to know
I don't take shit from the status quo
I bend time and space in my hand
I'm changing with the world as I stand
Maybe you knew me when I was young
When demons hid and angels sung
But now I've seen things harsh and true
I'm no longer one you can see right through
You see now I've been through some life
And I've been through my stretches of strife
I've seen dead men walking to and fro
Not worrying about where they're to go
They're dark souls and they've dark minds
Yet I know how to read all the signs
I see they're thoughts in their faces
They might be from all different places
But I've learnt to know as I grow
Leaving footprints, leaving seeds to sow
To me they're still of the same ilk, same crop
And I know them all, down to every drop
Of their blood.

Wanted

I'm going away tomorrow
You might not see me before
Before I leave, before I go
Before I sail away towards
A silvery moon
Will you wake me up tomorrow?
With a telephone call
I know maybe I won't see you
Before I sail away
But will you wake me
When you rise?

Actually ... Yes

There is a single time
A single word
That changes lives
In a second
You took me to a garden
Showed me lilac flowers
We took photos
And we smiled
Under the early summer sun
And there was a path
A route you chose
With the lilac flowers
Hanging like bells on the green bush
I stopped and looked
Distracted by their beauty
Then you turned
And gave me a sheep
A single fluffy sheep
Like Gabriel Oak to Bathsheba
(All proceeds to Thomas Hardy)
I was lost for a moment
After all it was a fluffy sheep
The plushest to-die-for kind
And then you said,
"Actually ..."
Actually there was something else
That you wanted to ask
And then I turned around
And there you were kneeling
Actually kneeling
With the ring sparkling in the sunlight
Oh yes there was a single time
And there was a single word
One word that uttered from my lips
As I hugged that sheep
And my eyes
Widened in shock and adoration
Which was only ever one thing
Only ever going to be
One thing
Indeed
"Are you serious?"
-I mean, it was,
It was "yes."