Moon

Thin crescent moon
How can you
Smile so squint
Its like
Being on your side
Bobbing your head
Doing the splits
Along a roof corner
You have no eyes
You just grin and stare
With no teeth
But crooked patches
Where your seas should be
Oh
Thin crescent moon
In the night
And in the day
You look like
Nothing I've ever wanted
Apart from a banana

Bobbing

Your little bobbing head
With your little bobbing hormones
Bobbing through your body
You have no bobbing control
You're a little bobbing boy
Chasing a little bobbing girl
Bobbing both in time
To this little bobbing world
Your a tiny bobbing creature
With feathery bobbing wings
You're bobbing a-wanting her
But she doesn't bobbing care
Its an unfair bobbing world
To leave a bobbing boy behind
The girl has no bobbing want
To your bobbing flirtations
But you keep bobbing after her
Instinct bobbing you along
Keep going bobbing, I say
I praise your bobbing
And wish you the bobbing best
So bob along, little pigeon
You'll bob over the rest

Ragged Heart

I have a ragged heart
Would you like to see it?
Its right here in my chest
Would you like to feel it?
Take this scalpel I have here in my hand
Mark my breast with a bloody 'v'
Yes just like those ones you see
On the TV or in a movie.
You'll cut my flesh but I won't mind
I'll smile as you cut deep inside
And in their you'll see my ragged heart
Beating loud, holes wide apart
With veins so thin you could thread them
Skin so thin you could see right through it
Beat so strained you could race and win
A heart so ragged you could patch it.
I don't mind if you cut my chest
My ragged heart is quite the best
Would you like my heart in your hand?
Don't be shy now, go and demand!

Loss (Or Loss Is Not The End, My Friend, Loss Is Not The End)

Today the world awakens
Without another in its shadow
The sun rises in its orbit
Looking down with gentle rays
At the billions scattered beneath it.

But today is not the same day,
Today is a day without one 

It is a sad day, a dull day, a mournful day
But a joyous day
Of a life well lived and well loved
Of sons and wives and warm hearts
Of kisses and " I love yous" and

Of relief; for
The suffering, it has passed
The water flows ever on
Rivers of big blue and wet
Turbines still turn and people still walk
Wheels still work and eyes still blink
There is sorrow but there is relief
There are tears, but there are smiles
And there is loss, but there is love.
Is love, always be my love.
Fathers and grandfathers pass on by
But we remain their children eternal
So shine pretty sun
And flow pretty river
And world keep turning

As we smile

One 

More 

Time.

Gentle sun

The sun rises
Finally
Taking the opportunity
Of everyone's joy
He's smiling over us
Thinking
Ah, at last
I have a chance to stretch my arms
I'm out now
So dance people
My hibernation is over
Although
People
They so smile up at him
And think
Wow its hotter
Its better
More beautiful
But they still shiver
With scarves and hats
Adorning neck and brow
A little cold
For
Temperature
Ah sun
So happy that the clouds are gone
So happy the snow
That turned to ice
Is melting
So happy to see your face
After so long
But its
Not quite spring yet
Gentle one
Its not quite spring yet

The Rape, They Call It

Single and small
The seeds popped into her mouth
One by one by one
The purple flesh around them
With such a thin skin
It took just a touch
Of canines
To pierce it and release
The fresh sweet juice
Of a life so eternal

The taste was pure
And her desire was avid
She was a young girl
Barely fourteen
And full of absolute
Lust
For the fruit
Because she would never
Obey what her mother said
Like no child
In these stories ever does

So she ate and devoured
Seven seeds
Of the pomegranate
And a voice around her
Echoed in the halls around her
Roared in the halls around her
Causing the flames to dance

"You did it, you did
You ate it pure
You did it, you did
That which they told you not to."

She gasped
And she gulped,
Surprised at first
And the seventh seed fell
From her mouth
Leaving her only six to swallow
She
Bit her lip
Looking guilty or
Looking afraid
There were too many emotions to show
Her hands rolled tight
She smothered a grin
And looked around
Cheeky
Cheeky
Child

"You can't keep me,
Monster thine,
I am Demeter's daughter,
And you are a wretch."

The voice around her
As swift as darkness
Resounded
Amused,
It laughed

"Mummy's girl
They said you were a mummy's girl
So beautiful
But you're not a mummy's girl
Are you?
You're a wretch yourself
Aren't you?"

There came a pause
A pause indeed
And silence as the girl
Played
With greed
The voice listened
The master of hell listened
Waiting patiently
Oh so patiently
The ultimate kidnapper
Who had guessed perfectly right.

"She told me not to eat,
So I did
Six seeds for six months
That is the deal."

She winked at the fire
At the flames so high
The scorch marks
Brushed the ceiling
High
Up high

"You are more clever
Than I expected, dear oh my dear
Fourteen years old
Deep in puberty
Rebel in soul."

Persephone laughed
Then Persephone giggled
She removed her dress
And the hairpins too
Sexily
She placed a hand on her hip
Thrust out her abdomen
She winked
To Hades
His guess having worked
Her adolescent nature
Having been persuaded
Freedom
At last
From constraining
Controlling
Irritating Demeter
Her mother Demeter
Over protective
Demeter

"Come and get me tiger,"
She roared
Winked again
Once more,
"Just never tell mother
This was deliberate."

"Don't worry,"
He said
Stepping from the void,
"I'd never tell my brother
Your father
You're true feelings
If I am yours."

You told me

Didn't you say you wanted to cry?

Didn't you say you wanted to sigh?

Didn't you say you wanted
To back away
And be alone, all alone
Away and,
All alone?

Well I,
All I did was I,
I -
I made it easier.
I made it happen.

You ask me why.
Why, why, why?
I tell you why
And you cry.

You break down in tears and
Tell me not to go
Beg to me on the phone
As I
Sit in my
Single room flat
With a single bed and only
A rabbit for company.

But I
Have already gone from
Your future because you
Told me you wanted to say goodbye

You told me you wanted to cry

You told me, you told me, you wanted to sigh.

You told me you wanted to be alone,
All alone,
You wanted to back away,
And be gone from here
All day, all night.

So why - why
Do you beg me now to come back?