Blossom leaves fall in slow time
As she climbs the walls
Claws at the ceiling as truth withdraws
Soft ground hits hard
Bed bound in famine of feelings
Forced hands fleeing shores
Leaving a derelict land
Shot salt lick hand
Cold turkey in love
Bold waters cut
Mouth in tatters
Wiped tears on fingerless glove
Vultures circle above
The wind whistle blows as the dead float
Flick knife
Strip stick to point
Grip life boat by the throat
Scrambled legs to the seas
Reduce pride to its knees
Kiss the tide
Stray into the night sky
Play hide and dont speak
Rinse delete and repeat.
Up the joyriders
Give speed to the thrill queens and libertines
Knuckles the colour of rainbows
We ride
Jaws to the wind
Below
The shy stand aside
Holding close canned candyfloss and oversized coats
Passenger shaped hearts
Dressed in second hand quotes
Pockets lined in fur faux
Images rendered too quickly
Tender like so
For a second theres no room for snaps chats or filters
Only L-seated screams from chains held high
Feet break up the night sky
Outline your own name
Remind yourself why
Early boy up and against the fall
Scratch butter into wheat
Scroll myself out of my seat
Red lips fill room like flare
Smoke surrounds her danger length hair
Hips silhouette through an oversized shirt
Sweet babygravy
Save me from hurt
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Talk over me underneath stress
Beat me out of this blue
Play chess in the air and stay there
Take all my men
Take my pawns
Spoon me into multiple dawns
Hit hard hit strong
Discard all my alarms
Punch pelvis’ pink
Sink me into next week
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Amber bruise brittle
Think little to none
As wet pages tear
Care not for the beautiful one
Love lines derailed
Failed attempts to tame
Make noise for the hangry boys
Front crawl in their gauntlet of shame
Half smiles touch fintertip tiles
Wearing only our names
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Then morning breaks
Mouths marginal meet
Truth wakes
Like all things sweet
They become fermented in the palms of men
SIMcarded
Discarded
Given number out of ten
The ocean left me heavy
In doubt
Eyes red in their sockets
Pockets turned out
Gave chase to distant waves
Like a hometown spade
Long faced in a song gone wrong
Here comes that empty taste that follows love
Thumbs drove bullets into wounded dove
Scattered
Across roads I no longer know
Indicate left turn right
Shout fuck into the night
Hands branched too close to sun
Smokescreen to a hit and run
Temper takes tonic
Chronic
Point blank comfort
Be it blunt
Be it true
I failed me for you
It gives rain tonight
It gives pain tomorrow
I used to hunt hurt down
I used to follow the arrows
The heart ran his last race
Sad but not bad for such a vacant space
Though
Silver grows cold
Be kinder
Another harsh reminder
Leaves fall from green to gold
War streaks slow and beautiful
Gentle in suffering for those remote
Though a hellish ride on the inside
Close your eyes to a coward’s kiss
Bliss followed the front line
Maybe once upon a time
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Silver smoke spills from under drums
Bones thrown into the air in waves
Dog stands over punctured boy
As the rebellious choke on their father’s joy
Women tread pages of bad news
Faces red, dressed in blue
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The jealous weep for keepsake
Sleep is for the meek make no mistake
‘It’s bloody cold... let us in’
The neighbours cry out for medicine
Whilst kids wash hands in comic sans
Folk harbouring guns, pulling teeth for fun
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Blame the outside as bodies return with the crooked night
Stealth portraits facet down in their landscape badly framed
Scapegoats shamed float back to hearts in half
Label it just, holy as such
Mourn into plastic flowers and paper cups
For that surprised historic touch
White rocks lend shelter
to a daydream
Suncream welcomes sand
Drifting into Maribou states
Stealing time
Lifting hand
Fingers into lighter shades
Eyes crossing into future fades
Tossing coins
Tails to one side
Sails set
Slide between shirt
Hurt me if you must
Rather I burn than go cold
Paint must spill to make art
May I bruise
Start to bleed
Ink from above
Love kills the biennial
Arrows
Fall
Take it all
Play hard with high hopes
Against the grain
Against the ropes
As smoke confronts fate
Wish into water
Open mouth
Fish or cut bait
Say something
Don’t just lie there
You’ll die of thirst
in the highest chair
Hollow as she be
Words float next to her shallow body
Like buoys clinging hopelessly to a ship
As she drifts
My frantic head lifts
She creates a void
Absorbed into the curve
Im held by a foreign scent
Opposite yet familiar of home
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My voice falls deaf
Multiple calls failed
Belated love you sos
Are but echoes within her sail
She floats out without compass
Totally disengaged
My drunk heart hangs apologetically against it’s cage
Water so cold it burns
Anxiety takes it’s turn
Anger grabs the wheel
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I hold fast to the queen sized mast
Overcast by a northerly shadow
Over thinking
Sinking low
Distant parties roam fringes foam
Torches light footsteps across dancing stones
Whistles question the silence
Sharp breaths resuscitate a sad song
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Fear floods the night sky
Flag torn hangs high
A final call goes out for her hand
As feet reach sand
My hope grows old
My jaw shakes cold
Skin tore
I rest ashore
I count her cigarettes
Like candles on a death cake
Breath
Take one
Make one
A wish to forget
Tables turn
As quick as they’re set
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Divide
Dish
Serve
As if nobody cares
Cameras flash
Flares to a quiet storm
A vessel part stripped
No longer warm
Failed to recover
Isolated too soon
As televised she wakes at noon
Worn and withdrew
Fragile often tea with two
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Sugar walls build the night shifts
Silence killed as a finger lifts
The fifth string attacks the watershed
Headshakes accompany hands
Not again gets said
In vacant I cant stands
Needle points wrestle with time without clue
Say Our Father
Rather be anywhere than be with you
A beauty to behold
A joy to be inside
A foot out in the cold
Both shoes beneath the tide
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An eye too shy to witness
A finger points in blame
A refusal of forgiveness
No-one to guard her name
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A whisper in the distance
A nightdress on the floor
A kiss without resistance
Elbows pinned against the door
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A cry to stir the silence
A lust too big to share
A fist declaring violence
Crimson tangled hair
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A heart too broke to mention
A hand too cold to touch
A time spent under tension
Numbing celtic liquid crutch