Goodbye

04/07/2020 -  Poem a Day Compilation



It wasn’t hard to say goodbye.

I didn’t need to say it at all.

I simply shut the door on our friendship

And let it fade into the background.



I went against my better judgement

Letting you into my life at all

But I was alone and lonely then

And wanted to see the good in you.



I think I knew it wouldn’t last

But I hoped you would change for me

But you just got worse and worse

And, in the end, I couldn’t continue.



I sometimes miss our chats

But knowing how they always end

I’m glad I don’t have to go through that

No matter how good the rest of it was.



You probably think I’ll come crawling back

But I don’t need your negativity in my life.

You’ve had more chances than you deserve

And you can’t worm your way back this time.



If you try to reach out to me

You’ll find no response at all.

Because you don’t deserve my time

And with these last few words I am done.

Opposites

03/07/2020 - Poem a Day Compilation



I wanted to stay in and watch a movie.

You wanted to go out clubbing.

We went out to the cinema.



I like wide open spaces.

You like the city life.

We bought a unit overlooking the park.



I wanted to cook an omelette.

You wanted a five-star dining experience.

We used the good plates and had candles.



I like lazy Sunday mornings.

You like running a dawn.

We each did our own thing.



I wanted to get a kitten.

You wanted to get a dog.

We got both, and a turtle, too.



I like intimate barbeques.

You like huge parties.

We had a huge barbecue in the park.



I needed to be brought out of my shell.

You needed to be brought down to earth.

We needed each other.

Complete

02/07/2020 – Poem a Day Compilation

I do not feel complete –

I am a half, a quarter, an eighth –

Divided and separated,

Not whole by any margin.

 

My heart is simultaneously full

And empty at the same time.

Conflicting emotions wash over me

And drag me down below.

 

I want to be at one,

Not cleaved by indecision.

I know what it is I want

But not how to start that journey.

 

My heart is drawn in one direction

While my brain pulls in the other,

Neither winning the battle

And the war hardly begun.

Uncertainty

01/07/2020 - Poem a Day Compilation

 

Sometimes I’m not sure

And I feel a little like Heisenberg

Trying to measure momentum and position

But coming squarely undone.

 

It’s not that I think you’re a wave

Or a particle fixed in space,

I’m just constantly in doubt

About where it is we are going.

 

Were love as simple as physics

I’d have a glorious PhD

In what it is to be in love

But maybe not what it is to be loved.

 

Perhaps we are Fourier transforms –

Two corresponding bases in space –

The magnetic potential between us

Absolutely, undeniably true.

Home Planet

30/06/2020 – Poem a Day Compilation

 

I look around this world,

Its wonders stretched before me,

And ask myself one question

That everyone should pose:

 

Where’s the sense of adventure

In beating a well-worn path

When there’s a whole planet to explore

And a lifetime’s memories to be made?

 

I have stood atop a mountain

Way up above the clouds,

Staring out to the horizon

And down to valleys below.

 

I have crossed vast oceans

To far and distant lands

Where I do not speak the language

But can always understand.

 

It is the beauty that binds us,

The soaking in of new sights,

The sharing of our doorstep

With those from foreign lands.

 

I have gazed upon great monuments

Built to honour kings and queens of yore

And stepped inside magnificent temples

Dedicated to an everlasting love.

 

I have driven across continents

Their length and breadth laid bare

For the simple pleasure

Of seeing what was there.

 

When you marvel at the intricate –

The smallest petal, a delicate wing –

And take in the riches money can’t buy

But a sense of wonder can.

 

There are so many places still

To spark my imagination.

I cannot dream of new worlds when

I have not done with this one yet.

Out of Order

29/06/2020 – Poem a Day Compilation

 

The sign said “out of order”

And I had to agree.

The whole world was.

I definitely was.

I was upside down

And inside out

And back to front

And more than a little skewwhiff.

 

I was unprepared and overwhelmed

But didn’t really realise

Until I came face to face

With that sign on a vending machine

That summed up my whole existence

And it didn’t pain me at all

That my life could be so encapsulated

By a broken-down drinks machine.

 

It seemed quite rational

To be confronted as I was

By the illogical being that was me

In such a humdrum manner

As wanting a bottle of soft drink

And being unable to even begin to decide

Because a sign on the front told me

“Out of order” and I was.

25 Words

28/06/2020 – Poem a Day Compilation

 

If I had only twenty-five words

To explain how I felt about you

I don’t know that I could do better than

“I love you.”