There is a cat made of light
On my window
watch them sun glow
sometimes they wake me up in the morning
There’s sometimes a cat made of shadow
it hides from the rain
and my worrying mind’s brain
There is a cat made of stars
blinking and meowing
purring and scratching
latching onto the window with its claws
There is a white cat it’ll find me death
it’s name it’s Azrael
and when it’s on my shoulder
I will walk into the life beyond skin
and never get any older.
Broken effigies
Of idols
lost bibles
filled with lies
and old repeated sighs
Love stands indifferent
affirmations don’t fail
we set sail
for a love that doesn’t flail
about in the dark.
The spark in the dark
sets alight the blue touch paper
no matter the sabre
rattling
we won’t stop the love which sets us free
and chains us in one
overcoming hope rides
like a white horses galloping strides
we hold hands in the night
even if it’s in our minds
faith is a dreamer
a scheming mind
has to sing
in the deep waters of imagination
faith is belief
hope never extinguished
I hold your breath in my mouth
you blew in there
I am caught by your loving stare.
The radio booms on speakers
it’s enough to wake the dead
zombies re attach their heads
ghosts clammer for attention.
What’s this dissenting dismal story
breaking from the ordinary
it must be the radio news.
This towns a ghost town and we are out of sight
dead ravens take flight
like they have been reanimated by Edgar Allen Poe
the word nevermore repeated.
Disco lights dance in the dusty ghostly radio station studio
the presenter moves his skeletal hand
and slides the controls to the peak setting.
his voice a long forgotten recording
playing jingles old songs and adverts
for a town where no one is around…
Real tears shed
Eyes of the eternal
Can see the dead
not long gone
Just out of sight.
Like the bird that takes flight
into the white room
with white robes
I looked for you and I froze
I saw you with my undying eyes
you are not gone you can’t die
You live on in my mind
and in a different dimension
of the goddess’s mind.
They call it white lightening
I down you so fast it’s frightening
I often wonder on the consequences
the thunder if not restrained deafens me sequentially
blurred vision and stomach acid
I cannot restrain the panic and feel placid
are you my really my Dutch courage?
as you ravage my life force and cause discourse
Bad decisions and unsafe sexual intercourse
my money is gone like my dreams
Distant dreams but my sadness screams
in surround sound and high definition
I have pressed the fuck it button I gave myself permission…
I came back
you wouldn’t believe me
Receive me as gods messenger
I saw crucifixes
You left me there on that cross
Not listening to a word I said
Left me for dead
You thought I said the kingdom of heaven was within you
It was mistranslated you are the kingdom
and this could have been heaven
If you’d worked together
But instead you sever
the ties and die
reincarnated as yourself
In a different body
To all who have ears
and a mind which isn’t blind
We are the rainbow and white light
All colours every shade
arrayed in splendour
a flame is still a flame away from the fire
It still burns and the light yearns
to burn
We all burn for love.
I am the silence when you are talking
When you travel by car I’ll be walking
When you are arguing I’ll be at peace
I’ll be the pages in the book you’ll be the crease
You’ll be the night I’ll be the star
Shining bright from afar
You’ll be the gun I’ll be the bird in flight
That you miss
You’ll be the punch I’ll be the kiss
You’ll be the heartache and I’ll be the bliss
I’ll be the antithesis to your thesis
As we collide in opposites as we attract
We will also repel
Who will win out who can tell
in this black and white world.
Intravenous agnostic
religious blood pumped into our veins
staining our blood with shame
love beats in our hearts
the same love that beats in other peoples
from housing estate to church steeple
we were born to love as one people
we are the universe
made conscious
our conscience is our conscious love
may look to the stars above
but we are as much born of the stars
as we are of the earth or Gaia
and anyone who says that you only go to heaven if you believe in jesus
is a liar no one can put out the star shine in our hearts
we are one just like the white light from the sun
just refracted into many like the rainbow
individuals feeling pain although
the pain is not knowing or feeling that oneness
with the universe our mother
our father yin and yang the clues are all around us
we may curse and cut
but we must trust in one another…
