Unbroken

After all is done and the banks paid
And all the loans to rest are laid
You and I across the table
Recall the moments in price we paid

The Sunday spent working alone
Unbought the dress with shining stones
Holidays taken nowhere together
Gaping at empty neighbours houses

The car that went for a longer ride
The one that the mechanics deride
The house, tuition and pension
the three horsemen of hypertension

Skirted danger tempted fate more
Insurance got despite a horrible score
Age brings all factors to the fore
It's just a numbing, lifelong chore

It's put our lives to paid we know
We'd aimed for a better life to show
those that never cared for us
But I, would have chosen death to life

A few moments alive to long days of strife
It's too late now for us you see,
We're unbroken but bent, dear wife.

21/07/2013

Aimless Restless Evenings

Aimless restless evenings 
lead to peaceless calmless nights
shapeless hopeless mornings follow
that baseless endless afternoons build upon
and this ceaseless cycle of ennui repeats.
Today somewhere a song plays
'Live is life'
Later they'll say I had smiled.

Why do i walk barefoot

Why do I walk barefoot
On the carpet of nettles
Of your memories?

Some escape inside
And travel upwards
Where my broken
Heart lies

They meet others
like them there from before
And join hands
To build a fence

A barbed fence that
Imprisons me
and holds me
In constricting embrace

None can enter
Nothing escape

All She Said

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ALL SHE SAID

12 June 2012 at 12:57

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She takes my hand

In hers and plays

With my fingers

Bending, twisting

caressing slowly

Gazing intently at them

A single lock of hair

falls over her bowed head

A controlled admission

Of her feelings

Lies in her upward glance

To me

Now her other hand

Moves up to my head

And her eyes follow

Resting on my hair

The hand and eyes examine

With great interest

I sit still

eyes on her face

On her eyes that still

Do not meet mine

I see lids heavy with

Desire and love

Try to read them

And fail miserably

Not a word is said

In this unhurried time

And the phones ring

Mine and hers together

We pick them up

I see the number

and disconnect mine

She starts talking

I watch the words

As they form on those lips

Pursing, parting, expanding

The brows dance and

smiles play in her eyes

Now animated now still

Her hands play with her hair

I just keep looking

Taking it all in

Such a view

The curve of her back

Seam of her dress

The band in her hair

The studs in her ears

The stars in her eyes

The sun in her smile

I do not blink

Just stare like a fool

Call done she turns to me

Again quiet

But looks up to me

In my eyes

The very eyes

that have waited for long

To gaze into hers

Her hands come up again

This time to cup my face

Her lower lip quavers slightly

Suddenly I ask who it was

On the phone

A friend was all she said

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