Loyalties

15/03/2021 – Poem a Day Compilation



I could never love another

My passion is unbounded

I live and breathe for the days

And the nights

And the seemingly endless afternoons

Spent in your company

The highs and the lows

The good times and the bad

Being one in the moment

A connection like no other

No question of where I’d rather be

Wild horses couldn’t drag me away

Because this is my life

My childhood

My adolescence

My youth and my adulthood

My world and my being

A space in my heart filled

With the triumphs and the defeats

Of all my years on earth

A loyalty flowing through my veins

That nothing can drain

Imprinted on every fibre of my being

Every neuron

Every cell

My beloved now and always

My loyal Sydney Swans

The Scarf

23/04/2020 - Iso Well-Being Compilation



I wore it like a firebrand,

Slung about my neck,

Protecting me from all that came

With fierce determination.



The richness of its colour

Pumps like blood through my veins,

Giving me life as I stood

In the midst of enemies.



Their eyes fixate up on it,

Wanting to charge me down,

But this hero needs no cape

In this forsaken town.



My passion exudes though it,

A vehicle for my love,

Identifying without a word

To my fellow cygne amateur.



Its hue is smeared across my face

In tribal solidarity,

Bearing witness to my ardour,

The warpaint of my time.



I would roll it out like carpet

For the warriors I fervently follow

Their deeds the stuff of legends,

Recounted for years to come.



And it stands as a warning

For all who come before

To take heed of this army –

Blood brothers through and through.

All Too Sensible

Listen to the strings of my heart,
A quiet melody is being played -
So soft and soothing, so pure -
But it is the only thing I hear.

Your voice may break through
Into the melody to become one.
Your words would sound just as sweet
Even if they were so harsh.

Look closely, deeply, into my eyes;
Don't be surprised by what you see.
There is a light behind them
That shines through for you.

Your eyes burn into me -
They tell of a hidden passion
Deeper than either of us knows
And it spreads to reality like fire.

Feel my touch on your bare skin,
Delicately my fingers pass over you,
But even this small contact
Has a power that is uncontrollable.

Your hands are refused their release
By a society that you created.
You are locked up, behind a wall,
And you can't reach out to another.

Sensations overwhelm us if we let them
But fear will never let us be happy
And, if we are afraid of feeling for one,
We won't feel for anyone at all.