When the moon retires running her length
the river lies a fishbone on the white plate
feebly breathing like the slosh from oars,
the shadow digs a hole in the bush.

The faintest chill rattles don't escape
and the chatters dull as broken notes,
the shadow picks up from the mist
with the intent of an absorbed dreamer.

The gold diggers in that forbidden land
filter their preys keen to fill some more
from the mines lining the grey riverbank
with each reap a little closer to attainment.

The precise compass weighs the measure
tightening the muscles into a symphony
for that climb onto the ****** in one spring
before stealing the stilled, deep into silence.

You're the one for me
You're all of me
I want a smile from you
I just love you, sweetie
I'm asking if you love me!

You're my new day
You're my good night
You're my blue bay
You're my bright light
I just love you baby
I'm asking if you love me!

I love your cute nose
I love your lovely eyes
I'm a fan of all of those things
Your heart is my safe place
I just love you, sweetie
I'm asking if you love me!

You were made for me
I wish you could be mine
You're so cool to me
Think of me if it's fine
I just love you, baby
I'm asking if you love me!

You have everything
I'm alone, I have nothing
True love will never die
This love is true, never lie
I just love you, sweetie
I'm asking if you love me!

staring out the window,
I remember you as you were

a bird always in flight

a fist full of tomorrows
held in the palm of your hand

staring out the window at the pouring rain
the warmth of your hand
pinions of a dove's wing
your hand in mine

I will not see the shadow
under your smile


gathering all the light in the room
like a flower in the sun

I remember you as you were

I want a bond that is invisible
A bond that is beyond the physical
A pinch of the intellectual
Some traces of the emotional
Perhaps something a bit spiritual
Or may be a touch of the supernatural
A little bit of extra-terrestial
With a wee bit of the celestial
A bond which engulfs me till I merge with it
And we become one single entity
A bond which keeps me hooked on to it all the time
A bond which constantly arouses all of my senses
A bond that engages with me
A bond that challenges me
Where do I find such a bond???
Or is it that you're not supposed to search for this stuff???
It will come to you when it has to...
I'm quite confused here...
I've looked far and wide...
But can't quite seem to have encountered such an unique bond
I wonder if I'm asking for too much...
Is it possible to find a bond like this???

Clumsy in Mom's heels,
Curious toddler wanders
Clown-faced, smeared in rouge

It was all faintly lit gloom
where her silhouette wouldn't betray
if she was sleeping or awake
amid the thick smell of disinfectant
the world debarred from the room.

I trust not one of you, she would say,
moving germs, a tribe of dirt,
that's what all of you are.

Countless times she would dress and undress
drenching herself with dettol
changed linen time and again
and her only pursuit of happiness
was denying even the closest an access
to evade disease only she knew.

Others would find in her
a diseased mind.

When she died
men were hired to burn her
and the celsius ensured
she had a germ free passage
to the next world.