Month: October 2009

Lost To The Light

I fell asleep surrounded by words My pillow bursting with the wings of birds When I awoke they had all taken flight Like so many dreams that turn in the night They were lost to the light I knew a man with a devilish laugh Like rolling stock on a railroad track That hacking cough…


Trigonometry

Greewich Meantime is mean to me I mean time is too fast to see Many seasons, many loves As if your love was not enough From southern breeze to northern snow there’s a line that I must toe Other girls fall in between To tempt me from this path serene…


Slaves

From the legions who are marching on the road which never ends There are some of us who stray off to the side Down the road which forks and bends In the name of independence, in the name of other truths Abandoning the temples and the shrines In the name of our youth…


Song Without Words

A pointed remark that gets under your skin like a splinter Can work through the veins and permanently lodge in the brain I wouldn’t want something I said, to hurt you and mess up your head And so just for you I have written this song without words…


Vapour Trails

The drizzle that dampens every crevice The grime that soils each dream This nation that’s forged its own shackles The red brick that’s swallowed the green It’s no place for one of such beauty The poison will soon reach your heart They’ll scuffle your shine ’til it’s blackenned Come take your chances with me…


Devil On Your Back

The one who soothes your ego when you’re not feeling yourself Is tugging on your conscience when you’re feeling someone else You may say that she’s beneath you when you’re feeling ten feet tall But the one you treat like dirt is there to catch you when you fall…


Now Is The Silence

My sparkle having ochred, dried brittle and vanished underfoot I hide beneath the eiderdown stirring only to fan the embers of the soot Saying said and doing done Now is the silence and I hide beneath the snow…


Song of Goodbye

I never said a word Not even under my breath I didn’t even think it I don’t know what you’ve heard I know the rumours abound The wind spreads them around But I swear I’m not cheating I wouldn’t even know how To abate your suspicions know You won’t know if it’s bait ’til they…


Who Hurts The Most

The valentines we send each other Year on year are just a cover Witness to an ever-growing fear That Cupid who we fed and flourished Will fall to earth now undernourished And love’s young dream will fade and disappear When words we want to hear Are not enough to keep us near When we tear…


Tender Hearts

There are those with hearts so large You can enter without knocking There are those with hearts so large That you only see the half There are those with hearts so frail It could shatter with a touch There are those with hearts too frail to live like you and I With flowers in their…