Many mother’s have lost children After a decade of peace On Easter Sunday , in Sri Lanka, Many more children’s lives were lost A mother, a wife no more Just a woman, trying to make Sense of what happened Reliving, regretting, each second of that dark day of doom 21st April, 2019 they sauntered casually In to the house ...
There’s a darkness That will not mend Swiveling, inside Faster and faster and faster And you can almost miss me sitting here The real me, I mean Through all this talk and laughter The spinning –that- just doesn’t stop This darkness that owns me And, that I own Is consistently around A shadowy companion Tethered to my being Always ...
[“How’d I get so faded”?] These dark words of yours Speaks to me from afar Sinking into the depths of my despair Soaring to the heights of your ecstasy Crowded, dreary, seconds inside my mind, Pulling me in Expansive, brilliant, seconds inside yours Pulling me out I’m looking for escape Inside your song Every note, every lyric, settling in ...
Let’s not forget, how we felt these three weeks picking up the pieces of their lives from amongst the rubble, are those that are left behind, rubble, that used to be a mother, a father, a brother, a sister, a son, a daughter, a grandson, a granddaughter, a grandparent, an uncle, an aunt, a cousin, a friend a neighbour, ...
Self-destructive When it comes to any kind of love That’s me and you Sitting in silence Filtering a thousand little reasons Why this wouldn’t work the banter, which we’re usually so good at, abandoned with nothing left to say I get up, slowly, and dust off the back of my jeans you look up, shaken by the sudden movement ...
I should have called you back I got up Off the floor after a half an hour conversation and you said goodbye I didn’t want our conversation to end So I waited till you walked home from up the street From the telephone booth where you used to call me -10 – 15 minutes or so That’s the time ...
You used to turn it on And off At will Vacillating between Burning passion and Cold indifference Till all the steam ran out Things got too serious Some days when insanity hits I miss the fights The kissing and making up The fierce, desperate, bearing of the soul Overflowing But just mostly How alive all that madness made me ...
You said we should meet I hesitated Self-censured Like that last piece of chocolate I know I shouldn’t eat mocking me we both know how this will end bittersweet a bit more of the dark and bitter for me a bit more of the sickly sweet for you unfortunately l can’t burn this off on a treadmill or a ...
If you’ve lost the will to laugh If you’ve lost the will to smile If you can’t watch them theorize anymore Fingers pointed at each other, in blame If you’ve hung your head in shame, these few weeks And feared forgetting them Those that killed, and, those that died If the security checks are becoming the norm, yet again ...
I still cringe When I think of that hurried afternoon meeting Your farewell face Saying it all And yet I let it be Let you triple T- “think things through” Even though I say dismissively to you When we talk, thereafter, “I know the answer already” Some sadist in me wants to hear you say it ...
For the first time, I, Wanted to stay Just be where you were I was thinking How strange all this felt Didn’t wanna pick And go Didn’t wanna say goodnight I could see you getting bored I just wanted you to hold me tight Baby, I can see I’ve overstayed my welcome But I wont move I won’t go I’m ...
You need not go Into that darkness alone I’ll come there, with you Here’s my hand Take it There’s no other way You’ll feel less alone I’ll go into that darkness alone You needn’t come there with me Don’t hold out your hand I won’t take it There’s no other way With you here – I feel more alone ...
Love left me at 24 Didn’t come back Till many years later Or did it? Was that lust? I got confused Having been alone for so many years after The lines blurred Love had evolved And I hadn’t noticed I still believed in connecting from the heart So lust left As it must when confronted With an unyielding spirit ...
You’re joking With half a straight face Peering into my eyes Holding on to my hand And I’m shaking my head So that’s your joke??? Laaaaame dude, I say But I can’t stop smiling You’re pointing at my face Hah!!!!! Seeee that was funny Noooo!!!!! Yeahhhhh!!!! I can hardly hear you now, and my cheeks are hurting I’m hanging ...
Why do I need it to have some meaning? I ask myself everyday Can’t some of it just be without meaning? Without sense Without direction Just without anything Just be what it is Without a tag Like you and me We could just be Why does everything in the world Have to be labelled Fall into categories That most ...
I thought I knew me Till I saw you At midnight, wrapped around her waist Dangling, at the edges, All woolly and warm I shouldn’t have interrupted Should’ve stayed, politely away Talked after You know been more civilized Instead, I sauntered over Asked her what she was doing with you And did you know we were together Looked surprised ...
Funny how Wanting to love And wanting love I’m standing here Kicking the grass I’d rather if you’d move a little closer ‘cos I just can’t seem to Bridge this one foot or so between us Stretching like eternity I’m considering tripping , falling over, Spreading your arms wide open you say animatedly, “It was this big” I’m thinking ...
Tonight you ask With that half baked smile ?? Will you be there? Maybe, I say What do you mean? I mean, maybe I’ll be there And maybe not??? Yeah….. You’re grinning now Like a Cheshire Cat You’ll be there, you say, and laugh out loud Your hand on my shoulder Willing me, to come I can feel you ...
