Complicated

A poem from 2019

I have analysed her from every angle

Exhaustively

And still I’m unsure -

Is she a threat

Or a promise?

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People Eater

A poem from 2019

I saw it coming in my mind’s eye

All horns and tarnished crowns

It flashed a set of metal teeth

And said it was coming to eat me

Slowly and painfully from the inside out

First the smelly, juicy bowels

It has no sense of taste

It’s wicked work is destruction for its own sake

Moving through the lungs, the heart

Lusting after the brain

I stand unmoved, the vision thickens

I breathe deeply, lift my eyes

Lips form wordless prayers

Terrified, the beast realises the mistake he’s made

This temple is already occupied

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Where's Wally?

A poem from 2019

It’s infuriating

That many seek what is hard to find

When truth stares them in the face

A time traveller, bit part in history

A man of mystery

A holiday maker, thrill seeker

All the fun of the fair

Fantasy landscape

The bottom of the deep, blue sea

Never satisfied

We want to win and we want more

All on our own terms, of course

We seek, not intending to find

The constant journeying is the prize

What to do if we reached the goal?

A denial

It smells just like a rat died

In my soul

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Scattered

A poem from 2019

Birds they are a-chewing 

Taking out the goodness and spitting out the husks 

Birds they are a-pooing 

Indiscriminately causing inconvenience 

And there is death here 

As life destroyed before it has a chance 

And there is disease here 

As life shrivels up and hearts become numb 

Here is brokenness that can never be mended 

Predators stomping around without a care

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Selective Amnesia

A poem from 2019

You can’t remember being nasty

But you can remember all the times when people weren’t being nasty to you

As though they were

You deny everything

Even when what you said is on tape

One hundred times you lied

And still refuse to take the blame

We, the people

We, the plebs

Me, the ruler

Me, the dregs

A plague on all your houses

Blindly self-destructing

We are not going to take this any more!

Well, probably we will...


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Tomorrow I Will

A poem from 2019

Today I procrastinated

Put off the things I didn’t do yesterday

Tomorrow I will do more of the same

And life will pass me by

And still I will deceive myself

Raising a fist in the air

And singing, “I did it my way”

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Carrion

A poem from 2019

The Pearly Queen is dead

And already black birds are circling

Beady eyes wide with blood lust

Delighting at the instinct of ripping flesh

Red drips from the beak

Tasty morsels of human

Jellied eyes, no longer see

She is blinded by her death

It’s a blessing that she can’t see the coming carnage

At Pearly Gates you cannot view what’s happening on Earth

You rely on the rumours brought back by angels

While awaiting a new body

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It's Always Winter

A poem from 2019

The whole world's frozen

The trees forgot how to talk

Wait! The Lion King!

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Bartosz Gorlewicz