Category: Textual Encounters

Procrastination Blues

You’ve got procrastination blues

and you got it really bad

when I get it like that

it makes me very sad

But today will be gone

in a very short while

and you didn’t do

the things that make you smile.

You haven’t done

anything you want to do

They’re on the ‘to-do-list’

You’re still waiting for a cue

Immobile but insistant

Procrastination stands

Give it a wave goodbye

Pack it off to distant lands

Strike while the iron’s hot

which is all the time

There’s no time like the present

This time right now is fine

Please don’t give up

Don’t give up the fight

You’re a writer

And writers write.

Imagination – Friend or Foe?

Creative energy

Sometimes works against

Turns against

Double edged sword

A weaponised mind

Hit by friendly fire

Time and again

Overthinking

in the trenches of my brain

Channel

Focus

Turn it round

Into the right direction

Imagination

you have shown that

you can work for good

Lost many a battle

But I can win the war.

Then Comes June

Everyone danced around you

Made me dizzy

Intoxicated others

Like the maypole

Garlands were hung from you

Celebrating the joy of summer returning

But you transcended all seasons

Evergreen

Immortal

Maypoles are made of

Pine, birch, elm, ash

You are ash

And hold all the secrets of the dead

Maypole, you wrapped us tightly

In your beautifully coloured braids

Comforting, yet

Uneasy entanglement

Pleasing, yet

Troubled bondage

Soul ties promised

Safety and fun

But always at a price.

We all fell

As your ribbons unravelled

Hoping and praying

That when the maypole falls

Then comes June.

Beside Myself

If I am beside myself

Then I am two

I don’t know why it is

I don’t know who

Who is beside me

And why are they sad

Who is this person

They are quite mad

Get behind me Satan

I don’t want you near

No tortured soul

Can loiter here

If I am beside myself

I want it all good

The person will be kind

And does what it should

Who is this being

Please go away

Unless you can hug me

I don’t want you to stay

Unless you can comfort

Unless you can smile

I need you to go

And run for a while

If I’m beside myself

I need them to love

No war is allowed here

Just the peace of a dove

So if you are twin

And you won’t go away

I have to accept

All of yesterday

I’ll make amends

Who is this that dares

You won’t go away

So I need you to care

I need you to merge

You can’t be beside me

You’re freaking me out

I need you to leave me

I won’t be beside myself

There’s no room anymore

There’s only space

For one on this floor

Time to melt into one

I got you sussed

This town ain’t big enough

For the both of us.

I Beat You In Tears

I couldn’t beat you in anything

You were always miles ahead

And whenever you lied

They believed what you said

When I tried to help in the kitchen

You kept me lame

You shooed me away

It was your domain

Everyone loved you

Without exception

You had the charm of the devil

From the inception

I bigged you up

You kept me down

You were the class

I was the clown

I wanted to please you

Didn’t need anything more

Requited love

Is what I always hoped for

When you were hurting

All I did was cry

When it was the other way round

Your eyes were dry

You never wept for me

In all of your years

I beat you in something

I beat you in tears.

The Sun and The Tree

The tree wasn’t feeling good

Come closer it said to the sun

I need you

The sun slipped behind a cloud

The tree scowled

You don’t love me

And then it rained

The tree drank deeply from the soil

And took water into its roots

And felt well again

The sun came out

from behind the cloud

and said to the tree

Still think I don’t love you?

The tree just smiled.

In the Garden of Grief

In my dream,

just after you passed on to another realm,

God summoned you to my side

You did not allow me to say goodbye

Or give me a chance to say ‘I love you’

You ended it

As you had started it

And how it had always been

I will never see you again

or hear your voice

But in the Garden of Grief

I got you all to myself

and even though God could not make you

tell me you loved me

He made sure I got to say goodbye

and we talked about the past

and times that made us laugh

and we walked together one last time.