Tag: Relationships
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And Tonight You Will Come To Me
And Tonight You Will Come To Me and tonight you will come to me and we will speak again we will say the things we should have said in the way we should have said them truly and sincerely and we will listen to each other and hear what we say we will hear what…
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You Never Listen To Me
You Never Listen To Me whenever I speak you never listen to me and that speaks volumes
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That Christmas Feeling
That Christmas Feeling Today it begins Arguments and bad feelings Christmas is coming
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Incompatible Is Just One Word
Incompatible Is Just One Word so many problems a single word describes them incompatible
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The Difficulty With Love
The Difficulty With Love The difficulty with love is the word love. I can’t tell you how much I love my brothers. I can’t tell you, because I can’t tell them. It’s not how we work. Love is not a word we have in common. We meet, we eat, we drink. We talk, though we…
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The Terraced House
The Terraced House It was up a hill but a step down from the place we had called home. It was all my mother could afford after they split the money. A terrace, not a semi, with two bedrooms instead of four, a pokey living room and a kitchen like an ice cave. The back…
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as if that is how it happens
as if that is how it happens Afterwards, you cried. I didn’t know why. We had made me a man, (as if that’s all there is to it, as if that is how it happens), but I didn’t understand how you thought. I was a boy then. I am still, in too many ways. You…
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The Room Where I Write
The Room Where I Write The tick of the heating, as it kicks in to life, chasing the cool of night out of this room where I write, comforts with more than mere heat. It is sweet and familiar and safe. This place is my own space, where there are no others to care for…
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An Old Gold Ring
An Old Gold Ring Going through the glitter tat that we’ve gathered over years of buying this and that, shiny shit and twinkly bits of jewellery, some good, some crap and bought for no better reason than because we could, I found an old gold ring. A heavy thing, it belonged to my grandfather, long…
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Guilty Of Feeling
Guilty Of Feeling I don’t understand. When you treat me so badly, why do I feel guilt?
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The Terror Of Love
The Terror Of Love Out with my son, a too rare event, on a weekend, even rarer, we eat and drink and talk like solid old friends, and I’m silly happy to realise that is what we are now. We wander through the eating places and the bars of the city, places known to him…
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New Tricks Old Dog
New Tricks Old Dog even a young pup can sometimes show an old dog a book of new tricks
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Worn And Worn
Worn And Worn An antique gold band. Her grandmother’s wedding ring. Worn from being worn.
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Together Apart
Together Apart Not every word will be kind not every kiss will be gentle not every thought will be nice not every touch will be tender that is how it is that is how we are together in this together, apart No brief encounter or moon and stars just normal people that’s all we are.
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I Have Learned To Love You
I have learned loved you, at least that much is true, but what I never, ever learned was how to love me too.
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I Remember You
One year gone, one year on, but I remember you. That little girl with a cherry red flame of hair that was to be the colour of your life, hot and vivid and passionate. I remember the fear in the eyes of the young woman you became when thay said you carried more life, and…
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If Not For You
What would I do, if not for you? Would I survive, or even thrive? Would I make do, and better, too? Would I do less, become a mess? What would I do, if not for you? What would I be, if not for thee? I would be sad, and oh so bad. I would be…
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If Then Else End
If you don’t want me Then I don’t want you Else this love is false End if that is true
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Writing Me Up 