Gift

Text: Take from me This living gift Of a hand to hold

Enduring

Text: And it’s worth savouring How we moved From a moment to enduring

Forget

Text: Sit quietly with me And forget Why we ever thought We weren’t enough

Rescue

Text: I pinched my nose Jumping into nothing’s deafening tide Terrifying in its darkening tourquoise To black depths spiralling And then you appeared, bow through fog Like a ghost-ship smokey grey and its strip-tattered sails You gloriously real people Who pulled me in, hauled me on board So we became friends on that dark night […]

Love again

Text: When the sun goes down When the hard day finds its end You hold my hand And make me love the world again

Dying place

Text: I’ll see you in the dying place Amid the shattered stone Where grass and trees Grow no more Where silence makes a home   This place we find As sun meets earth Is less bleak than it appears What you see is mortal-view There’s more beyond the veil   We’ll keep this place A […]

Fenced-in friend

Misplaced smiles Can just as easily Wound Like barbed wire Lining the fence that makes us Better friends