Memories meander
Recollections conflict
Stories embellish
While tales are dismissed
Truths are diluted
Opinions distorted
Lies are denied
While dreams are aborted
Clarity fading
Direction mislead
Doubt is pervading
Through all that is said
In time all that was
Will plague us no more
But all that was not
Will, without warning
Breeze effortlessly through
The unbolted door
18th Aug 2021
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