Just when I had learned
Everything there was to learn
I learned this was mere vanity
And just when I had learned
And all had been confirmed
I realised with clarity
Just when I had learned
All I thought I needed
I learned I’d been conceited
And just when I had learned
That my wisdom was a lie
And with my ignorance confirmed
My thirst for more was pleasingly revived
23rd June 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