Excess which breeds excess
The more without the less
A joyous brawl at best
At worst desire to be addressed
Pointless resolution
To decorate confusion
And drawing blurred conclusions
From a questionable solution
Excess then, more or less
To tolerate and acquiesce
Not for celebration
But for pressing punctuation
12th Jan 2022
The calming, steady hand of sobriety For days and weeks and months Holds and comforts Soothes and cools Dilutes the cruel Guiding the hours And steering the minutes Sheltering from showers And looming
The bronzen dale lay bathed Lit gold by the late-day sun Wonderfully, Gloriously swathed While the light warns of night-time to come The fading bracken paints Vivaciousness stained on the hill While l
His broken heart won’t mend But he’s laying down foundations To simply walk again With lowered expectations One foot before the next Is what he aims to do Its nowt that can’t be mended With a metric l