Put down your defences,
Your arrogant armour and
Turn the kettle on
Let the steam fill the space
And the sound of water boiling
The argument
I’ll just sit here
And you there
In silence
Whilst we hold ourselves
And empty anger into a mug
Until it evaporates and my heart
Softens for your surfer eyes;
Until it evaporates and my heart
Remembers:
With you it flies.
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I will draw you
Concentric circles, equal in diameter
With radius of regret,
And in it, grain for grain, our story
Stored from the moment we met
And here in the sand lies true
Every instance I stood empty,
Wanting, waiting on you.
I will draw you
Concentric circles, equal in diameter
With radius of love,
Fly now free, fly from this,
Until you’ve risen above
And can see my circles
A portrait, a tribute to love.
Copyright Hiraeth 2014
Forgiveness lies in the places
We fear to tread, the ones where
You acknowledge my darkness
And your own;
The places where your judgement
Was callous, insensitive,
A knife in an already broken heart,
Where the simplistic view that
Houses who appear from the outside magnificent are perfect,
That handsome husbands should be
Enough,
Where one person destroys a marriage, while another is an innocent bystander, where people who believe in God, in the sacredness of His institution don’t falter and fall
(In fact they all do)
Is not an accepted explanation.
It lies not in the crevices of the past,
But here in the present
Now
It lies where you, like me,
Begin to face your
Self.
Copyright Hiraeth 2014
Your place is here
And lest you forget and
Uncertainty brings fear,
I’ll be here to remind you:
Your place is here.
As storms gather and threaten
To wreck and ruin,
With summer skies of youth
Gone too soon,
I’ll be here to remind you:
Your place is here.
As life ends and we question why
With little answers as comfort
Yet we will and try,
I’ll be here to remind you:
Your place is here.
And one day when He
Has the final say,
You’ll know you had a home,
A place to stay;
And it will be clear:
Your place was here.
Copyright Hiraeth 2014
I have seen the bottom
Of my soul,
The darkness etched within,
I have explored it, indulged it, tempted it and called it out:
And own it.
By acknowledging it
I dragged it
(Screaming)
To
The light
And what I realised is
That even one flicker
Ember flame
Is enough to reignite a
Weary wanderer soul.
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Slowly you will rise and see
That what you wanted, who you are
Is not what you aspired to be.
And you start again,
You start anew.
Slowly you will rise and see
That what you loved, who they are
Is not what you dreamed them to be.
And you start again,
You start anew.
Slowly you will rise and see
That what you knew, who you were
Is tangled forever in what you’ll be
(And you start again – always
You start again,
Because dreams like butterflies
Always fly free)
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I’ll only be yours for a while
And just when you think
You have me, own me
I’ll recoil and make you wonder
If you ever did.
I’ll only be yours for a while
And just when you think
You know me, understand me,
I’ll surprise you and make you wonder
If you ever did.
Sad as it may be,
This is love for me
(And all the while
Fear makes you blind to see:
I am yours into eternity).
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Every now and then two stars
Collide, crash into each other.
It’s unexpected, and intense,
Unseen forces that unite
For just an instant.
Always the crash reveals
Aspects of yourself you never knew.
Sometimes it results in one atomic mass, other times new halves separate.
I don’t think it matters which it is,
(as hard as it may be)
If you hold your hand out to the moon
And it shuns you,
At least you fall amongst the stars.
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You are always there
Weaved in the words,
Nailed to my heart.
Our love may have ended,
Our journey done,
But
You are always there
Caught in moments, memories,
Magic from a time scattered
Through punctuation marks,
Delving in paragraphs.
You are always there
In my dreams late at night,
When stars dance and the moon
Frowns, your smile etched forever
In the skylit planets of
My soul.
I wish I could tell,
I wish you would know,
That despite time passed:
Immortal here, in my words
You are always there.
Copyright Hiraeth 2014
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