77.

Parted Love


Gentle screaming, pregnant pause
Whilst life is ripped from heart so coarse
By silver steel’s soft quiet hiss
On parts unknown by lover’s kiss

A quiet parting, push aside
The knotted skin that holds so tight
Still beating heart, one soulful chest
Now keeps the secret, love at rest

76.

Bleeding Stream


A red knife dying, bleeding dry
In thousand pardons, water’s cry
Whilst washing life away from death
She screams and dyes the water’s breath
To life force colour, gentle dream
A bleeding river, endless stream

75.

Open-Eyed Dreaming


In fuming silence, death departs
From shattered dreams and broken hearts
From nightmares shown soft red on wrist
And gentle dreaming – love’s first kiss

Dreams as clear as clouds above
With life and love like freedom’s dove
Who soars in every earthly hope
And helps the helpless marching troupe

Who plunge through life in blindness sure
With dreams as guides – no less, no more
Screaming trust in every step,
They fall from cliff top – hope at rest

74.

A Second Chance


Give me the chance to live again
Show me the door and I’ll walk unchained
To death and birth and new life’s chance
Once again to join the dance

I’m dancing now but blind and scared
With eyelids shut and hope impaired
I missed the beat and now I trip
On dreams – the floor on which I slip

To lay here still, whilst all around
Fly angles dancing, life unharmed
A nightmare calling, night and day
This life’s a waste – just work, no play

No time for freedom, dreams or hope
No time for loving – this heart can’t cope
No angels pause to stop the dance
To help me up – give second chance

Give life and love back to my heart
Help me see what now I can’t:
An angel’s mercy, soft and sweet
An afterlife I now must seek