Connection......twitching
Perfection........glitching
Direction..........drifting
Momentum......pushing
Reality...............drowning

If it's over, it's over,
there is nothing left to do
Just count your blessings,
say your prayers
Go your separate ways
And know, for the grace of God
It's best,
that you just be you

JJB

Gliding,
Just effortless,
Held up by see-through strings

One day,
will man fly
If God does grace us wings

JJB

The first minute you're out to impress
The hair
The scent
The way you're dressed
The films you have watched
The traffic you have stopped
The firearms cocked
The time is now
The reaction needed is wow
The only thing is to work out is how

Impressions

JJB

We all have that friend
Who drives you around the bend
That says that they can have anyone in the bar
But ends up asleep in the back seat of your car
Often a brag to what they have done
And thinks the world revolves around their stories of fun
Whose delicate touch can make some girls quiver
But also their brashness can send them a shiver
For that friend is often a case in the making
Whose head needs turning away from this faking
Now look in the mirror and tell me it's not you
As that friend is a lie so please just be true

JJB

We lost each other at a time we both never even noticed
I have no more words to attend
A love that filtered into a friend
Some journeys just come to an end

JJB

That crazy night you thought you had put to bed
Knowing one day it may raise its ugly head
White and blue but caught wearing red
The less we dwell, the less well said
Secrets are a burden to those who carry
The more well hidden, the heavier the tally
Some crazy affair, your accountant named Sally
Better than that drunken kiss with old boss Barry
As distances need stretching more than at arms length
Best leave on a solomn smell and not a suspect stench
Always the star player, never sat on the bench
Discrepancies need securing, best tightened with a wrench
This place is now making me nervous
Lets leave on a high
Before my secrets,
rise to the surface

JJB

It's hard to know where to start...
Was it when we smiled at our farts
Our world seemed less offended
By just everyday laughs
Suddenly, we become so precious
When a joke was a joke
And good humour was priceless
On what day did we become so picky
Revising the words in our head
Not to say something deemed tricky
From the nineties nobody could even see
This future we accidentally mapped out
That upsets the whole of Gen Z
Preferable when we,
just went out and rode our luck
Back when we,
didn't give a ....

JJB

What is the fuel we run on
We are not machines with an instant charge
To be oiled, rebooted, resynchronized to society
These limbs are a biological process
Roaming this Earth with no given objective
Yet bold enough to build these helping incentives
Until panic sets in when not fully charged
Diesel and petrol, now battery operated cars
How long have we got until we are the same
This once savage race, now a number, not a name

JJB

Is another you even logical
A million universes, all paradoxical
When living the one seems sometimes utterly illogical
An open mind, wave away those who are cynical
Take what you like, it's a wild wild shop
As life is a grab-what-you-can free for all

JJB

There's many a good tune that can be played on an old piano
To what depths do we dive,
If not to be labelled pure shallow
Brooding yet endearing,
Her eyes still entrapment at large
Sorry not to have met before
My life now stirring at starts
Do I carry on with lust unjust
Or dampen these forbidden needs
She wants to go out with such fun
******* Catholism and these Rosary Beads

JJB

Our words have faded
No looks
No love
Unknowingly jaded
What did I do
Something I said
Something in bed
We cannot roll back the years
So please talk
Show me which way to walk
Before this all ends up in tears

JJB

Strange, can be a word used, in the kindest of sense
Quirky, away with the faries, but never no harm meant
Gathering our thoughts that sometimes go astray
We all go off kilter, in our weird and wonderful way
Some thoughts if aired could land you inside
Those ones you would never tell,
that you should be standing for Pride
An in-kept secret, locked down, never to escape
Only you can lift that barrier, and cut that red tape

JJB

That sympathy smile
If you asked, they'd run a mile
Although some do like our niche
A certain obscure taste to brag
Whilst eating their celery quiche
We sometimes fit a perverts kick
Another box for them to tick
Sorry you're ill, but we like them sick
That hospital smell, exquisite, and not in good nick
Are we last in line as easier to reach
That smell of disinfectant mixed with toilet bleach
But love does come in strange shapes and sizes
Some wear a mask, for gain in disguises
Others see it through, a rock in your crisis
No matter the option,
No matter what procedure,
if going under the knife
To always hold your hand
The person you love,
will be there for life

JJB

The difference between secrets and separation...
A secret can burden, be carried as a weight on one's shoulders
Separation can cut those binds, opening trust and a whole new chapter
Disperse of those thoughts, constantly on your mind
Blank page, rule one, let's start again
Let's write new beginnings,
and a book of better times...

JJB

At what point did I lose the will to dig
Pounce on ideas
Elaborate that feeling
Explode my atom into mass
Write down extortionate hypnosis
Sweep away those knock backs
My knarled hand that battering ram

Maybe it's the mounting that has stopped my thought
This net with mass holes of which none I have caught
The never say no to which I now tyre
And that is just it my friend
Lost in Desire

(The world loves a dreamer)

JJB

I fear what I might miss
That day
That night
The girl I might have kissed
But a fear I have not encountered should lay easy on my mind
As this is lifes guidance to a time unwanted
A diary page best left unchartered
Words that I now should never have been muttered
An alternative path to where life will guide
As we tip our toes into the changing of the tides.

Life is short.

Please live it.

JJB

At what point do we lose our shimmer
The glow, the laughs,
the getting to know you glimmer
Those lights on full beam,
onto an energy saving dimmer
We plod on with thoughts,
When one may become that sinner
Bright lights, colours that catch the eye
We never thought that one day we may say goodbye
Those colours fade from pink into a charcoal
When we know we've lost it all,
out fades that precious sparkle

JJB

Monotony is a process on repeat
You can change it
But why break this easy cycle
Its nice
You like it
If it's not broke
This is the easy life!
A record on loop
These minutes turn into tracks
You know you've got your back
But sometimes a light shines into another world
Dare I take that step into indifference
Or sail my good ship noble
On forgiven waters where all is stable...

JJB