Thin Skin

rice paper concrete

walk away crossing

watching my feet

falling falling

Heading for the Membrane

Golden moments slipping by

Unconsciously intensify

Direction

Magic story mission
Turn it all to gold
Do what you're supposed to do
Before your fire turns cold

Eruption

volcanic eruption

seascape dissolved

emergent mountain

response unresolved

Celebration

see through me to this

with the eyes of your child

wonder and gaze

on the sight

bridge the dotted line

through our space and our time

while flames leap high

in the night

Rock

Under the water line

Close to the shore

Breakers and currents

Pass around and over

You're there to cling to

Cast a rope around

Solitary Sentinel

Under water, solid ground

Hold my ankles

While I play and pirouette

Sunbathing on your shoulders

It's too easy to forget

The darkness in the water

The power in the wind

Life without your touch and strength

Lapping up around

Holding on to you

Holding on to you

Under water

Solid ground

Misplaced Lullaby

parked in a misplaced lullaby

in another time and place

when the memories come crashing by

I can see and smell your face

there's a hole in the wall

and a gap in your soul

and elastic mysteries

there's a space and a side

and a crack open wide

interrupting the peace

3rd October 2009

Flickering Affair

Are you going to write a song for me?

Is this how it's going to be?
A flickering affair
A flickering affair

I can see your energy
Firelight shining through at me
A flickering affair
A flickering affair

Virtual reality
Techno personality
A flickering affair
A flickering affair

Feel you reaching out to me
Don't want the unimaginary
A flickering affair
A flickering affair

What provides the rush?
Why do we care?
Where do we meet and touch
In this flickering affair?

Freedom

all of a sudden
a man-made construction
to stifle and enrage
like putting a cat
in a cage

feline affection
or nature's selection
runs deep and strong and true
I'll always come home
straight to you

don't build an artificial skin
don't promise me the stars or moon
just express the truth we're living in
share my space my time my tune

The Safest Place

We will lie down tonight
And everything will be alright
In the safest place on earth
The safest place

This is where I want to be
Wrapped up in you and you in me
In the safest place on earth
The safest place

Every boundary is a dotted line
Security is a paradigm
In the safest place on earth
The safest place

All the time in the world and none to spare
Appreciate and take more care
Of the safest place on earth
The safest place

Bad things happen and so do good
We'd stay right here if we only could
In the safest place on earth
The safest place

Hunting

ginger spirit stalks lothian fields

instinctive frequency banding

weary guilt weighed hunted standstill

fitful reluctant understanding

Old Friends

Silver circle on the wall

I want the secrets of your soul
Dare to hope that you still share
Those memories, more memories

Silver circle on the wall
A chance to touch but not to hold
See and show that you're still there
Those memories, more memories

Much outside and more within
The foolish path, the decent thing
Too much to lose, or so we thought
Could we have known they'd still be hurt?