Diplomacy is such a difficult balancing act, a heady path, with the greatest heights, where treading so gently, requires such tact, but, how do you restrain yourself, and train yourself not to react, when the minds of war, are in other people’s heads, and, in a rut, and set so far back, and when the […]

We dilettante misfits, we wake up to kiss the blank pages with our pens, minds and fingertips, minds and fingertips hoping for a sunny day to inspire, and we hope pull things from the air, and hope to reorganise them, and let them play out as best we can, and as the words flow sweetly […]

In a dilapidated state of mind, how easy it is to relax, and watch the world go by, in a dilapidated state of mind, how the thoughts struggle to form themselves, and how the brow, it furrows at the passing of time, yes, in a dilapidated state of mind, how numb you are with the […]

Did you know her, did you know her well, a body is being carried in a body bag, by the roadside as the traffic swells, did you know her, did you know her well says the woman, to another woman with tears in her eyes, a woman shocked and surprised and traumatised, traumatised to see […]

Did the mountain come to you when you called? Did you call loud enough for it to fall, and did it stand unmoved and resolute, or lay in ruins at your feet, large broken rocks and small, and what did you ask it when you called, did you wish for change, did you ask for […]

Detrimental, elemental, a force of nature, forever blue. Oh, you got a mood upon you, a mood upon you, but what can I do? What can I do? Because I know that you are like thunder and lightning, and of what you want you have no clue, and dark is the day, when you come […]

Society, stress, stress, and destruction. Destruction of the mind, a multiplicity of thoughts and a mood of the indecisive kind, an unsettled mood, a mood of schizophrenia and anxiety, a mood that by being overwhelmed does drive you wild, and that does drive you around the bend, and that does make you want to tear […]

Despatched with a knife, blood on the streets and tears, tears later in mothers and fathers, and siblings and relatives’ eyes, stab, stab, quick, quick, run away a coward flees, someone dies. Despatched with a gun. Despatched with a knife, shot and stabbed in the cities, and the towns where it is the scourge of […]

Please, kindly bring me some water for I am a little parched, for the world is in a desert, and I am all cried out, but how long will this desert, this desert of Ill thought and hatred and wastage last, please, kindly bring me some water for I am a little parched, yes, please, […]

Derivations of you, derivations of you, your children who look just like you, derivations of you with those freckles, and those eyes and that hair, all short and blond mostly except for you with your ringlets. Derivations of you, all of you who stand before me, identical copies of you. Derivations of you, blue eyed […]