Hold on tight I’m letting go Hold on now Try on your own I’ve chosen the bus seat you like Even though I am alone I flash the old picture of you On the lock screen of my phone And I feel I will miss you when you’ve grown I feel I will miss you when you’ve grown I feel I will miss you when you’ve grown That child you are today It’s sad that we...Learn More

A flame is improbable In a storm that’s unstoppable Yet it is not the storm But the greed that tips the candlestick To light for one a second wick Only to snuff their blessing out Yet when gifted another time and place Perhaps this soul won’t make the same mistake But share instead that flame around Til’ the winds blow not amongst the circled crowd...Learn More

Au contraire Your tone-deaf contribution’s weak Laisser de marbre In all but the most glamorous of grief Faux pas Is it uncouth to share a little fortune Les plébéiens They pushed you up but you would have them perish in their hole N’est-ce pas? You’re in excess of joie de vivre C’est assez Je ne sais quoi, what could you need? Noblesse oblige Yet...Learn More

In our hour of need We’re adrift endlessly As wilting signs of the autumn come Bringing with them the cool veil of mist The past will succumb to death’s silver kiss Though all this must end, know it ain’t over yet We still ride by the twilight The turn of the tides The darkness of night Some things are sure, they’ll be evermore, so Sail with the...Learn More

Up to him Down to you He swears interaction Can’t threaten his view He speaks in earnest of what cannot be known And bleats unabashed of his heart’s missing tomes For he is the actor and he is his audience Stood at odds, stood at ease, stood by insidious ordinance And once his head’s spun with truth and fiction The wise lament lest they ignore his...Learn More