Making paper boats To set sail down the stream A tiny fleet to carry weighty cargo Each boat with fragile paper sails Each carries a memory, a pain Baggage that weighs down the soul Embarking on a voyage to nowhere special To just sail away, away And leave the heart light, the soul cleansed Free…
Lost and alone in a world of hurt and pain Knives fly suddenly out of the hostile dark A future stolen, a present filled with fear How do we grow from here? A yawning chasm gapes wide A maze of a million directions lies ahead Frozen in fear from impossible choice How do we find…
“Smile!” they chirp, plastic grins on plastic faces Cheery demands to friends, colleagues, complete strangers Cheesy humour, blasé assumptions “It’s not that bad! It might not happen! Smile! Come on, smile!” Smile? What for? What makes you think your greeting card jolly will help What goes through your head? Do you really believe Your perky…
Time passes and the world keeps moving Moving on without those we’ve lost We are shattered pieces on the floor But no one remembers Life will not wait for our pain And so, we pick ourselves up and pretend To those around us, to ourselves We place on our faces the masks of forgetting To…
No need to worry, said the doctor Medication will stop the degeneration You’ll be fine She meant to be encouraging It might even be true But all the kind words In the whole world Won’t stop the pain It might not get any worse But it won’t get better Another disability Another aspect of defective…
Eclectic Assemblage 