Give me reprieve from the constant
Give me a break from the boredom
Give me respite from the trite and the dry
Give me a path to a calling
Give me relief from the beat of repeat
Give me a test to complete
Give me a challenge to stretch my resolve
Give me the lip of defeat
Give me impeccable reason
Give me a grand proposition
Give me definitive meaning
I’ll show you unfettered conviction
25th 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