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.