The Battle of Honest Intentions
Truth never lies, and a lie's never true.
Dissonant chords; are they red, white, or blue?
Spoken to mirror deceit in the soul,
Truth is a weapon; a lie is a goal.
Stabbed in the back but admitting the deal
Practices lying, both hands on the wheel.
Truth sets a standard of freedom's regime.
Lies are but gestures of trickery's scheme.
Sword and a shield bearing truth as the mark
Battle the demons that lie in the dark.
Sinister motives a fib holds within-
Bold to the face in the gist of a grin.
Truth marrow filling the bone of a word
Speaks what is honest and pure, not absurd.
Lies boast decay in the flesh of the mind,
Maiming and aiming at garments, unkind.
Difficult notions seem hard to disguise ...
Lies aren't truth, and the truth never lies.
#poetry #Philosophy
Butterball
Deeply secluded within
feathered point of view,
Thanksgiving dinner threatens
all I hold dear.
I had big plans -
I wanted to be a baker
but I’m combustible you see.
Don’t want to be roasted
golden brown and succulent.
I don’t deserve to be eaten -
I’m involved in worthy causes -
Turkey Anti- Defamation League
the Uncle Tom Underground
and Kentucky Fried protest.
I have to admit -
I was a normal poult,
I pierced my snood and wattle
swaggered my bod in front of
sensuous juicy buxom hens
but now…
I’m in the prime of my life
organizing turkey Olympics
games of throw the egg,
bobble heading and
biggest turkey feet.
I’m furious at this family
holding your forks
waiting to stuff faces
with particles of me.
Why don’t you think
of turkey’s point of view?
You think we just eat grubs
and gobble all day?
I’m running for President
plenty of turkeys there
and most of them plump.
Why don’t you roast Trump?
cheers bitches
Tonight I want to drink until my pen is wet.
Until the moments unfurl...float away into the mist of ink and fire.
Tonight I drink to remember and forget.
Tonight I drink to new loves and old flames.
Torn out clippings from newspapers long since yellowed and crushed.
Tonight I drink to the roads that rise up to meet us.
The thirst on a summer's day in a pasture twenty years back
To the white fences. To the field hands.
To the bitches in my past.
To cool autumn days and mint julips on the porch.
Tonight I drink to wet my pen
To pay tribute to those that inspire
Encourage and to those who dismantle a soul with a smile and a
Bless your heart.
Tonight I drink for you
What’s a secret between best friends? - Chapter 1
Arms wrap around me from behind and I sigh in contentment. Pressing my back into the muscled chest behind me and my body starts to relax. Lips press against my neck causing goosebumps to flush across my skin. Fingers roam from my shoulders down to my hips, followed by a coating of something warm and liquid.
I open my eyes and turn to face the source of my new found warmth when I notice the colour of the liquid that’s falling down my bare flesh.
My body turns to ice and quivers in trepidation as I complete the turn.
A scream tears out of my throat as I see Jason’s face looming over me. Blood pouring out from the open wound in his head. His mouth open in a wide grin.
“Did you miss me?” he asks, the manic grin on his face.
His blood flows faster and faster pouring all over my face and into my mouth, I try to scream around the blood that’s drowning me when I feel hands grip my shoulders and shake me.
I wake up screaming and drenched in sweat with Louise’s face looming over me.
Shaking her hands off me I sit up and pull my legs up to my chest, wrapping my arms around them and hugging myself tightly. Louise sits in the edge of the bed. The silence between us is so awkward. It’s never been awkward in the past but since… well, I’m sure you can guess since when.
I can barely even look at her.
When were kids I used to have nightmares all the time, awful ones, where I would wake up screaming and crying and not know where I was? When that happened, it would be Louise that would wrap her arms around me and hold me until I fell back asleep, it would be Louise that would get up and make me a hot chocolate, read me a story, sing a lullaby. She would do everything that my mum and dad were supposed to do but wouldn’t.
I’d gone to a sleepover at her one year, all the girls in our class had been invited, it was my first sleepover. I was so excited. I didn’t think my mum and dad would let me go, but I think they were relieved to get me out of the house, and that they wouldn’t have to feed me for the night, they could spend their money on booze instead. Once we’d all finally exhausted ourselves with laughter, games and food sometime after midnight we all started drifting off to sleep. I tried to keep myself awake, I didn’t want to fall asleep. I’d been having the nightmares for around a year at that point, they started when I was seven.
But it’s pretty hard not to fall asleep when you’re tired at eight years old. So of course, I eventually feel asleep, and then I woke up screaming from nightmares and woke up all the other kids and Louise’s parents. No one could really settle after that, a few of the other girls insisted on their parents being phoned and being taken home, looking back at it now, I feel really sorry for all the adults, being dragged out of bed to deal with distraught children, it mustn’t have been easy for them. After everyone had gone back to bed, I couldn’t sleep, and so Louise stayed up with me all night, creating silly little games we could play to keep ourselves awake. She’s done that ever since.
And now here she is, sat on the end of my bed again, but this time offering no comfort. I want to scream and rage at her. I want to throw something at her. I want to break down and cry and beg her tell me why she did it.
But I can’t.
Instead I sit in silence as tears slowly fall down my face, images of Jason running through my mind, from how he really was, to the last time I saw him, and now the twisted version from my dreams swims behind my eyes also.
I feel a bit sick.
A baby starts crying the background pulling us both from our thoughts. Louise stands up to go the baby, she had a girl, and she’s called her Claire. It’s only been three days since…
They ended up at my house as I couldn’t get the blood stains out of the carpet. It can’t go on though. I can’t look at her. I can’t relax whilst she’s here. I need time and space to think. There’s going to be questions soon, people will realise he’s missing. There’ll be phone calls, police visits. What if they turn up looking for him? We were engaged for a time. They’ll obviously come here looking for him. He was a lodger with Louise for a while to, what if they go there when there’s still blood all over the floor? What if they look in my car?
There are so many questions running through my mind continuously. The same ones go round in a loop time and time again. New ones jump in on occasion.
And then the blood. I can’t stop seeing all the blood.
Running into the bathroom I reach the toilet just in time before what little food I’ve managed to force down in the last couple of days comes rushing up. After I’ve finished being sick I sink to the floor in-between the toilet and the bath and lean against the bath. The tears flowing freely again.
It took a while to sink in what had happened. My body and mind had made the decisions for me that night without me having to think about anything, and then Louise went into labour and making sure her and the baby were ok was the most important thing. It wasn’t until we got back to her house and saw all the blood that the reality of the situation really began to rear it’s ugly head.
My best friend had murdered the once love of my life, and I’d helped her get rid of the body. I still haven’t gone to the police. How could I? She’s got a new born baby, I couldn’t see her go to jail. Not yet.
Closing my eyes against the bright light of the bathroom I will myself to go back to sleep. I can’t be bothered to move.
As I finally feel myself drifting off I hear the door opening and look to see Louise standing staring at me, baby cradled in her arms. She has a look of pure contentment on her face and a rage I didn’t know it was possible to feel comes bubbling to the surface, giving me strength.
Using the bath as leverage I haul myself up and look her in the eye for the first time in days.
“Why did you do it Louise? Why did you kill Jason?” Despite the borrowed strength from the rage, my voice still waves and I still trip over his name. I can feel the tears stinging the back of my eyes again but I blink them away.
I look at her and wait and wait for an answer. It feels like an eternity. We don’t look away from each other at all, until finally she answers.
“He made you cry.”
26
This is you
At 36
I have some things to tell you
The more you have sex
The more you will like it
Do it every night
You both need it to grow closer
You will have health scares
But you will survive
You will be stronger for it
And it's how you'll find God
This is your home now
Try not to be homesick
You'll learn life is simpler here
You'll learn to love travel
You won't turn out like him
But you will help him on a journey to change
Love Mama and help her with baths as often as you can
Enjoy brushing her hair when she is too weak
You will be greatly blessed
With a family
Give thanks often
And enjoy breastfeeding, you'll miss it
And for goodness sake
Know that you are a hot mama
But please
Choose a salad sometimes
See you soon
Existential Hero
He carried the uncertainty of a man who was often caught deciding whether to fold his legs or cross them in public. Fear turned him into a poser. He spent too much time looking in the mirror, yet not long enough to find himself in the distant brown eyes that stared back at him. At some fork in the road of his life, he had buried that person under the shame of what he thought he had become: The hull of a man he once knew. Would it cost more to retrace his steps or go forth into the abyss? Would it matter?
BIG BANG
I am about to sleep, a very deep sleep
when I wake up
I see myself as an apprentice to Leonardo da Vinci.
He refuses to paint Mona Lisa's lips,
because of the way she keeps staring at me
To wake, and see myself
eating stone cold strawberry flavor ice cream
on top of the sun.
To wake, and see
how confused Edmund Hillary will be
when he arrives at the top of mountain Everest
and sees me napping on top.
To wake, and see myself
having breakfast, with the queen of England
To wake and see
I and Nelson Mandela, playing chess in prison
To wake, and see
The wright brothers, using me as a test pilot
To wake, and see myself
throwing apples on Isaac Newtons head
To wake, and see
Archimedes balls, as he runs on the street
shouting, "Eureka"
I want to pull off my pants, run on the street
and shout out loud,
"this land is forsaken, oh! it's forsaken."
To wake, and see
The shock onWilliam Shakespeare's face, I caught him in my office stealing my scripts. What!
To wake, and witness the first lunch of a space shuttle
To wake, and see myself
teaching Albert Einstein definite integral
To wake, and witness the birth ceremony of Aristotle
To wake, and see
I and Nikola Tesla
rubbing minds, in the library.
To wake, and see myself
holding the coat of Benjamin Franklin
while he addresses the high and mighty of Boston
To wake, and see myself
giving Luther King Junior today's paper
saying, "Barrack Obama as been the president of the United states of America
for the past eight years
To wake, and proof
the possibility of all impossibilities
I really need to wake up from this sleep
so all these things can happen
Someone please, wake me up.