Halfway to Sark

A wall

Standing between land and sea

Its height, its depth, its robustness

All those other defining features

The memory forgets the sketch

Instead one retraces on an essence

Of that particular Friday morning

Outside the wind picks up

It is still the time of darkness

I hear the sound of rain

Safe in a warm bed, I daydream

Of flags and pavements

Places, between one and another

Where small birds & children played

Ahead of us then 

Sights of happiness, or contentment 

Sat on a wall, looking at the boats

Tasting the ice cream

Less complicated than the

Complicated arrangements

The fortifications now to disassemble

Today the day is Wednesday

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Parting Shots - Love Of The Status Quo

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Eyes opened to the wind

I close my eyes

To think of you

Beaches and blue skies

All those other dreams

That didn’t quite come true

The door opens

A shadow falls

Its fear reminds me

Of empty railway stations

& pointless telephone calls

I listen to the wind

The nights are long

Those friends I introduced

My friends, came back to you

Didn’t they? They came on strong

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Coalesce

The you who enters my dreams

Each time a little more perfection

It is true, two, who enter my dreams

Each time more hurt in the resurrection

Beautiful bobs, of burgundy & brunette 

Steps taken, set down neatly with divinity

Together slowly, the two of you meet

A debt approaching the depths of infinity

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Parting Shots - Love Of The Status Quo

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AM

I search a trillion images

Not ever finding one of you

Even Godzilla can't diminish

The mannerisms that I view

Branches are black again

Snow melts all day through

I ache to find your picture

Loving to rummage for you

I merge a thousand words

Untold dedications to you

Evidently there is no finish

To moods I wantonly accrue

Romances are back again

Love smelts in and through

I make to find a simpler verse

Words that capture you anew

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Parting Shots - Love Of The Status Quo

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As absent as the breath you draw

The anti-gravitational mist rises

Prizes itself from the fields of frozen snow

I didn't mean for you to break my heart

I didn't dream of the reasons to make it so

I didn't ever mean to lose you
I never wanted you to go

The day is as still as your absence 

As absent as the breath you draw

I didn't ever mean to lose you 

In my schemes I never meant for you to go

I didn't ever mean to lose you
I never wanted you to go

The canal surface settles the reflections

Fringed by the winter white hedgerow

I didn't mean for you to break my heart

I didn't dream of the reasons to make it so

I didn't ever mean to lose you
I never wanted you to go

The day is as still as your absence 

As absent as the breath you draw

I didn't ever mean to lose you 

In my schemes I never meant for you to go

I didn't ever mean to lose you
I never wanted you to go

The snowflakes that float on the breeze

Crystallised water as the thoughts that flow

I didn't mean for you to break my heart

I didn't dream of the reasons to make it so

I didn't ever mean to lose you
I never wanted you to go

The day is as still as your absence 

As absent as the breath you draw

I didn't ever mean to lose you 

In my schemes I never meant for you to go

I didn't ever mean to lose you
I never wanted you to go

In my schemes I never meant for you to go

In my dreams I never meant for you to go

In my schemes I never wanted you to go

In my dreams I never wanted you to go

I didn't ever mean to lose you
I never wanted you to go
I didn't ever mean to lose you
I never wanted you to go

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Parting Shots - Love Of The Status Quo

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