Poetry

I simply couldn’t say
Where acting starts and ends;
I’m starring in a play
With family…

And, breaking our embrace,
I raised my gentle hand
And stroked your gentler face,
As water…

An age ago, the night so cold,
I didn’t dare to fall asleep,
For fear a hand would take a hold
And drag…

While it’s true the planet’s flawed,
That doesn’t mean you love it less;
You still can be quite overawed,
Although the…

There’s someone here who looks like me,
Regardless of the skin they’re in,
Their gender or ethnicity,
Of if…

I seem to fall through all the nets
Existence spans to keep me safe
And end up nursing vain regrets
And roam…

It’s time to turn the corner, now;
We’ve gone this way quite long enough
But never seem to learn, somehow,
And so…

It isn’t that I’ve been to war
Or even heard its distant sound,
And yet I’ve seen it all before –
The corpse-strewn…

Instead of chasing hands
Around the hectic clock,
The wise one understands
That time’s…

The sunlight on the many trees
And dewdrops on the grass
Are greeted by the morning breeze,
Whose part…