My day is thrown off course, just because I heard a name that sounds like yours The hitch in the syllables was the cracks in the pavement, tripping me up Keeping me here, in this place where time doesn’t move Where I refuse to relinquish my thoughts of you Like a maiden trapped in a forest of her own making With eyes in the darkness, watching in judgement, if I fail the test For that is when fate returns what she has taken In the moment your faithfulness has been forsaken

Watching like a mermaid watches the shore, crying The tide echoing her yearning In the cloudless sky of the early morning I couldn’t bring myself to go To heed daylight's call, the final bell tolls I feel your fingers slip out of my hold I couldn’t bring myself to leave Tethered to you by gravity, watching you in all your glory You’re burning, I’m yearning, wishing, relentlessly For more than a few seconds, every morning and night An eclipse alone is not enough to satisfy S

You’re either a liar or a pretender Maybe I’m seeking comfort in the familiar When I let you link our fingers together Like it’s something we have done before ‘I hate you’ I must be truly alone To cling to the these lies from you Wishing they were true Seeking an anchor Like slipping a hand through the bars of a cell Give me something to hold I’m too tired to care if it’s real ‘I hate you’ Give me your comfort, as empty as it is Even though I don’t forgive You, for ruining wh

It stands to reason When you love a character As much as I do him Some of that would rub off On the person who plays him You were just a name on a list The face that gave him life Until the world said I would like you In your own right It’s the time I first met him All over again He just has a way Of stealing my attention When it’s already been claimed And I guess it’s only natural You would be the same So now I find myself Drinking in everything I can about you Like you do w

Deep in middle suburbia A common kind of madness Has taken hold of my neighbour Hallucinating a calculated temptation The result of domestic desperation Fanning the flames of her suspicions Phantom femme fatales where there are none Every innocent action is an act of seduction Borne from long overdue adolescent frustration But it’s only a figment of her imagination There are no parted lips, painted like red liqourice Paired with a white tennis skirt Choreographing every noise

Like a shoebox filled with smiles and hellos Tucked between the postcards I’ve collected My history is littered with the remnants Of the...

It’s a demon It’s a devil It’s a fallen angel Begging me to fall They will catch me if I trust them Holding out their hand in innocent...

I’ll be the diplomatic one So you don’t have to be You can just say it how it is Cause I love your honest way of speaking How you don’t...

I wonder all the time if you remember If any of it even feels familiar Or is it just an event someone captured A lifetime ago, in a...

I’m not where I thought I would be If I ever thought anything… Let the clouds be the witness, to the sins I have to spill Standing under the summer boughs Lies a spot, that could have been an altar, in the days of old Perfect weather for a purification, and this ablution is long overdue Ensure the barriers are in place As these sins are released, they will grow wings and try to escape Let the sun burn everything away, every last trace The greatest sin I could confess, is I co

Under the wisteria, she lies, a gift willingly given To her captor, she offers herself, for the taking The angel walking into the devil’s lair A jewelled flower among brimstone and fire Lying in gentle repose atop rain damp grass, moisture sinking into her hair The smell of petrichor still heavy in the violet air Atop a bed of blossom and narcissus, she is arranged A picture of the pinnacle of his temptations Rose and nightshade petals garnish a sugar-spun gown In fae fingers

They all think my loyalties lie with them Even though I’ve never said anything, I’m still on their side I’ll keep my thoughts to myself Let them believe my silences mean whatever they decide They say I'm nice They call me good And I don't think I can bring myself To tell them the truth I keep company with dangerous men Who taught me everything I know I'll slit your throat before you see it coming Without an ounce of remorse I write poems dripping in blood Yours not mine And I

Bathing in the sun Your skin drinking in its heat, Until it's scalding to the touch Burning inhibitions, Till you feel light-headed, Almost with fever The world cast in gold Out of focus, dizzying in its brilliance This exotic land, where you step out of yourself In the first step on foreign soil Everything is foreign here The sky, the buildings Even the very air Bewitching with its heady perfumes Where every stranger could be Gilgamesh himself The symbol of perfection Create

Come, they call, let your mind wander There are still paths to walk down, a little bit farther Good or evil, it doesn’t matter My angels and demons are morphed together And they’re both begging me to stay, forever They come to rescue me, And they might even believe they’ll succeed But the toughest threads are the ones, that are the hardest to see And their sharpest swords couldn’t cut them free These ties won’t break so easily, no matter how hard they pull at me They try to

I’ve been a burnout supermarket kid Hiding mines in plain sight Wondering if they notice Living by my own law And I haven’t even cared at all Begging for someone to take pity And choose just to let me go Cause my heart hasn’t been in it If it ever really was But I’ve been having second thoughts I’m trying to change the things I’ve done Stop a bad situation from becoming worse And all I can do for now is pray And keep my fingers crossed I still have a little good will left

I’m trying to let my words have a life of their own Let go, and relinquish my hold Over – protective parent at the window Keeping a close...

I always figured as far as sins go Sloth wouldn’t be that bad Cause it’s not one of the big three of temptation Or envy, pride or wrath But appearances can be deceiving What might seem harmless can be the most insidious And sloth won’t let you go once he’s got you in his grasp With his soft-spoken whispers Hard work is oh so hard, don’t you just want to sit and relax Every time you think you have found your motivation He hides it when you are sleeping And all your best-laid p

Popped into the corner store, to grab a drink Innocent pack of bubblegum, lying on the counter Bringing back teenage fantasies English...

I only feel it indoors The door is the barrier To the boundary line A wooden veil between worlds Of reality and desire An unending, never- ending crave I can't articulate The hunger I can't name I thought the wind Had succeeded in erasing it But it's too late The words are already branded In my soul Twisted within my DNA And the hunger returns Each time the music plays It plays just like a mirror, Bringing me back around To days I thought I had left behind Brought back to a q

Somewhere along the way I switched places With a lookalike pretender They slipped in Took over A fearless kid becoming a fearful teen And...