Consistent and tenacious
Failure and success
Persistent bloody-mindedness
Unhealthy and obsessed
Finish and complete
Repeat, improve, repeat
Constant and incessant
Spinning through the verse
Flat or effervescent
Distracted or immersed
Interrupting sleep
Repeat, improve, repeat
Deadline fast approaches
Frantic thumb through thoughts
Memories are trawled
Lines are hooked and caught
A critical critique
Repeat, improve, repeat
24th Feb 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