5-7x28mm

Little lion, you've finally been found Free of the blood with which you've been bound Escaped from the tower, eluded the hounds and now you've managed to make a sound

I forgot you once the scratches healed threw your toys in the trash I found another one to play with but they don't scratch or bite like you don't purr the same Come back kitten I saw you looking in the window yesterday you hadn't gone that far just far enough I'd forget

Sometimes I think about the jar I left sitting alone on the shelf without a label It was short, thin, and red with a pink ribbon The contents were amber and smelled sickly sweet The jar wanted me to find it a label before I could taste something I found flattering and attractive I needed to be convinced it was delicious and worth savouring even though I was already willing to try it I found the proposal strange and I could not get over the sense that the jar was deceiving me How could I label something without knowing and how can I convince myself that what I choose is the truth? I struggled for days on a label as the jar screamed and curs

Between the olive groves and ebony were fields of lush moss, lit with hyacinths and orchids Above the rolling hills and tors, the sandy eskers, nature at its rarest The sweetest scents, the most beautiful sights, coveted, hungered, dreamt of, warred over and died for It called the weak and the foolish, blind and wanton, the strong and the lost, the lonely and forgotten “Come to my peak and be rewarded, scale my crags, walk my cliffs, if you fall I'll catch you and love you regardless” So they came and they fell, one after the other, tripping over themselves and over the roots smiling as they tumbled towards the brush unaware tha

Lying patiently at my side my best friend who's never spoken a word It's loyal to no one but its master As blind as justice as just as vengeance as forgiving as God It's as innocent as can be when it barks death deafening, sobering The promise of finality of totality a refusal to compromise I'll stare into its blank eyes for hours until they start to stare back seducing me with silence For now you'll remain my callous guardian you aren't my master yet

Where did you go? My comfort lost Forbidden by truth I want it nonetheless Every day, every night Thinking, wondering What if I I could have chosen another I did choose another Why not you Short, red, blue Sweet, soft animosity I think You deserve it Not that, but this I didn't have to choose another But I did Why not us Warm, close, inside Never let in Never touched Never breathed Spoke seldom, not enough Lost now I chose another Why did I choose another I'm glad I chose another

Disappointment, dreams unfilled Regrets replace variety Fears, still unrealized hold progress in place Kicking and screaming at nothing Fortunes imagined and a life dreamed Window shopping for a future With nothing to spend Red blankets on the top floor Wood on the bottom Black, rotting and convex Sawdust and chippings litter the mind A room undeveloped Dead insects, curled Rusted nails, bent Forgotten plants, wilted Rabbits in the window Screams from underneath A coward, a fake Liar, cheater, lazy, inconsiderate Generous Instruments not played Liquor not drank Perfume not worn A thought Immature Wicker and hemp Prints, paint Stuffed toys

One cold winter night, she came to me in love. And in ecstasy I did take her kiss; her life; her breath. Forever to regret. On lips of silk I did take her there, always to remember the pain she's caused. Curses on her eyes, until I felt her pressed against me. I cannot hold this pain to her, for the simple taste of her renders it all numb. In my life, one not for myself, the tears shed in vain; are the tears that have been held back, only to glisten in the corner of my eye. So I hold her there, embracing the one I've loved so long; and lost; and would never lose again. Until the sun has froze and the gulls grow silent,