This Child Of Rebellion

This child of rebellion
At last uprising.
The government- Machiavellian
Man, is it so surprising?
Many oppressed years
Under the fat cat
Now it's beyond tears
Viva the proletariat! .
So the bankers bonuses still survived
In their land of milk and honey.
The solution?
Turn to the deprived
To prop them up with public money.
Now students are angels with dirty faces.
No room for prudence
When fighting for places.
Yeah, sting the academic
To fund this sick pandemic.
MP's blame the 'hoodies'
So neatly they are labelled.

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Chloe

Chloe, i hang onto the past
Like a chandelier in a darkened room
But your hope is in the future
As light emerges from the gloom.
My sunset will be your dawn
Your happiness will be reborn.
It's snowy, but Chloe, ice will melt away.
Life, the price we have to pay
For the sun will light the bay
When silent fears sail away.
Chloe, we hang our hopes on a crescent moon
The aching in our hearts not just a pleasant tune
Scarred but starred like tender night
We feel the dark but wait for the light.
Our words still survive on a nomadic wind
Our thoughts free and open, with reality twinned.
Be proud, that life's shroud you have cast away
To feel out loud, while others torn, do fray-
Keeping it all inside on this roller- coaster ride
-They had so neatly planned, when love went hand in hand

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Christmas Eve.

Our tears have frozen and lie on silver avenue with snowflake peace
And i will think of your lamplit smile when my faith in love does cease
But as moon lights the snowman choir and lovers kiss
In the flames of my fire
I dream whether i should laugh or grieve
And i ache alone this Christmas Eve.
Love such a fragrant flower
But she and her promise ride the rooftops and are gone
And distant sleigh bells that only children hear
Drift past stars where our light once shone
And my prayer that rises like a kite
Will plead i can hold you just for tonight
As fate continues to dance and weave
I just watch the cars on Christmas Eve.

Mistresses and husbands
Lovers and wives
Drive to their honey
Bees to their hives.
I walk from the shops as rush hour dies

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An Old Bag's Lament

Been together so many years
At work, and travelling all weathers too
Hung around through all your night time fears
Was with you in every shopping queue
Kept your secrets in my pocket
That photo, your diary and lovers locket
.But through it all i kept it zipped
As your silent partner was best equipped
Friends say i was always on your back
But i lightened the load along life's track
For every job interview that you attended
I was in the same room, albeit suspended
We flew to Portugal, we visited Crete
Your duty frees i kept discreet
And your trainers would almost make me heave.
You cried, but took me when she said 'just leave.'
Your bills, newspapers and secret gifts
I carried them all, on trains, in lifts.
I lost you once, in a corner i posed
But you came for me when the restaurant had closed

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No.106.

At no.106 she sits in the dark
Watches snowflakes fall and gently park.
Cruel lights as rats race home
Her only guest one gaerden gnome
On her dresser is perfume, 'Elizabeth Arden'
And make-up she now doesn't use
She still sees him smile, her heart wouldn't harden
Though beauty numbs she still tries to enthuse.
Silence screams-so unforgiving
She spills her blood with ink in prose
The only proof the dead are living
With pills and booze the feeling goes.
She lies unloved as the devil's clock ticks
A countdown to suicide at 106.

At no.106 the world isn't fair so
She takes in some wine and an Elgar concerto
She floats in a haze like a butterfly in hell
Her nights meet her days with a silent death knell
Memories all bad, save for love's only drummer

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Senses

Can you hear the leaves
Whisper to the trees, goodbye.
When the sun went down
Did you see the heavens frown
As raincloud prepared to cry.
When shooting stars reload
Can you feel the colours explode.
Did you ever dance with moonlight on your own?
And by chance, catch angry waves
Beating aged rocks
- Could you hear them groan? .
When one seed was sown
Did you watch the earth move.
Beautiful slow motion in the groove
Yet nature has sweet nothing to prove.
Can you touch the rainbow
The darkness stole away? .
Can you feel a kiss from some warm yesterday.
Like riding on a train
Though my spirit with you

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Bus Ride.

I sit at home and drink my Sundays away.
Talk of hate but cry anyway.
I am the Adam that blames Eve.
In my army, no stripes.
Just hearts on our sleeve.
I talk of trivia laced with frantic one liners
Avoid sad songs and romantic diners.
Yet lay awake searching stars in black sky
Come tomorrow
I'll ride the bus
With tear in my eye.
I clear her name from my phone.
Just to make a start
But fail
When I am all alone
To erase her from my heart.
I keep her words
On a tissue, where her love she wrote.
Can't face the burning issue
That to stay afloat.

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Invisible Lives

Just another living hell
One broken heart with a cardboard shell
Embracing your bottle with a prayer of a chancer
A mistress that takes but gives no answer
Nagged by the dreams you can't forget
Bagged up in the alley cold and wet
-Invisible people we all have met.
The minstrel wandering with his tenor sax
His money squandering as addiction attacks
'Homeless and hungry' plead the users
But we all know beggars can't be choosers
The banker who escaped his debt
-Invisible people we all have met.
Young woman ran to streets of gold
Let another fairytale unfold
Then her money ran out- and her blood ran cold
Another dream is rocked, another joint is rolled
Hunger burning and a heart that aches
They duet in your head when the city awakes.
Midnight fires warm the souls so frozen

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How Lovely

How lovely she is
The woman I have never met.
Who waits with diamond eyes
In eternal sunset.
While love slumbers in my memory.
When sun
From cloud at last breaks free
It's then she will awaken me.
From this cave where the lovelorn dwell
I smell soft rain on lonely bluebell.
As moonlight casts his vivid spell.
Brushing her lips
Rouge painting her face.
Only dreams take trips
To that wonderful place.
Now lovely her spirit
That refuses to leave
Then sits down to cry
With my tears in her eye,
While spectres past I need to grieve

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My Music

Hey, heal me with that rock and roll
Steal me with the sweetest soul.
Seduce me with the coolest jazz
Hang loosely to some hot pizzazz.
I'll tap out rhythm in my shoes
Then join the sad choir in lonely blues.
Yet now I feel the violin bliss
I'm sure the flute blew me a kiss.
Our soundtrack as I glided with you
To dance in dreams to ballad true.
With tinkle of piano, I sigh
That twinkle in my lost night sky.
Tunes that haunt me from afar
And find me in some seedy bar.
So when I'm feeling like a monk
Heat me up with some raging punk
Breaking free with every curse
Anarchy in every verse.
And when the wailing guitars whine
With clash of drums

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