Tidal Man

A wave washes over you, before you know the water retreats.
It overwhelms you and then it’s gone,
Only to return with a greater force.
The current pulls you in and you learn to swim,
Until the ebb takes away the water.
You’re left to stand on ground, not solid though,
it’s soft and wet, you slowly sink in.
The tide returns and frees you again. You float,
yet you know that it’ll retreat once more.
And each time, you’ll get stuck deeper in the mud.

Scheduled Anger

Cyclic angst and recurring pain
Repeated hate and duplicate doubt
Over and over it stings, eroding all faith.
Tears of despair of a future so bleak
No love, never for oneself
Just disgust, disproval
Then it fades and calm returns
With hope it won't come to pass again.

Playtime

Rules to follow

Or made to break

Played when shallow

Less give than take

Playground’s game

It’s you I choose

Face the shame

I’ve all to lose

Why wait?

Release me
Set me free
My heart is caged
You hold the key

Spellbound
Since the day we met
Never rare the thought despite
Best efforts to forget

Will you, won't you
Endless questions race
Around in my head
Accelerating the heart's pace

Why I wait
I really do not know
Do you have the answer?
Raise me up from this low

Uncertainty
Was never my friend
Will it be you
Who'll help me mend

Patiently
I await my turn
In vain or not
Until then I yearn.

Expropriated Heart

To own a heart and to call it yours
That is an event quite rare
More than often you are willing to give
But no one wants to take it
Others have many fighting for theirs
Will no one have mine?
A request for another’s
Declined in a hurry, or often slow
An occasion which brings recurring tears, until
Ultimately there is no heart left anymore

Four Years

And how to tell
How to reveal the truth
This is how I fell
How I cannot move
On
And never can forget
That if only you knew
You’d never regret

Untitled V

An obsession flares up
The guts, they turn
With every thought of him
The heart eager to burn

Desire for one
I could not forget
Affection for him – who -
I have not yet met

Untitled IV

L’amour fou
An impossible standard set
It was all that’s ever been true
A truth I might live to regret

Untitled I

One’s foolishness
Drives one insane
Insuperable romanticism
Paired with endless cynicism
Marry the two
Only results in divorce

L’écho

Whisper the words
I haven’t heard in a while
Call me that again
It made me smile
Reawaken a feeling
That had been lost in time
I know you spell trouble
Still I will make you mine

The Ferry

Going on a ferry
We’ll all get drunk and merry
Across the borders
There are no last orders
We’re going on a ferry

Victoria Station

He told her something he regretted he’d said.
Flippantly delivered he went -
“There you are”.

Her reaction was too calm, too understanding
For him to deal with it.
“How can she still care?”

The words hadn’t sunk in with her though,
Consequences were brushed aside.
They parted with a kiss, never to be repeated again.

Questionable

I ask.
And I don’t get a reaction.
I ask,
And you don’t see the attraction!
I ask;
And you’ve already moved on…
I ask
Myself how did it go wrong?

Death by shyness

Luck favours the brave
But one day, I fear, it may
Take me to my grave
For I try and overcome once more
My timidity, but alas
I will just be left crushed on the floor.

Umbrage

There is a certain shadiness
To your behaviour
Hiding away from my sun
Yet you still glance at it

Afraid to get burnt -
Or do you prefer to remain pale?

Left to shield myself from myself
Your vagueness
Causes umbrage
I shall remain pale too

WTF

It’s not that tricky
It’s not like it’s face to face.

You can hide behind noughts and ones
and the only wrath to fear is an assault in code.

Lessons I

Their names imply sweetness
Why and eye-e
But in fact they just reflect
Immaturity

Untitled III

It is most draining,
This continual cathexis
One should know better by now
But well, I don’t.