Dennis was a menace
and when he hung around
in a pack he was worse

A curve elevated his cheeks
and a morning wave to the
neighbours fooled them
To think this is the authentic
him. A decent sympathetic
Boy.

But under that mask was
a prankster and a mischievous
dark you tuber and influencer.

He waited until the night doused
Itself in a coat of darkness
because that would be the perfect
opportunity to carry out the
blueprint of his plan.

You hurt me.
You forgot,
I am someone.
Someone's daughter.
Someone's mother.
Someone's child.
Someone's legacy.

I sat in the sun
And felt my skin burn
I remembered
How it feels:
I am corporeal
I hurt
I exist
I pee
I cry
I bleed

You cannot erase me!

I nourish

BEACH UNREADY

Why was I naked when I awoke
Could it be an odd sort of joke
A nudist beach with similar folk
But no, a deserted strip of sand
Memory loss I don’t understand
Before I move, just let me think

I do recall many a rum and coke
And someone there who spoke
I've a tiny towel worn as a cloak
Seeing the parts of me not tanned
Such a display was never planned
A lad’s day out and lots to drink

German Occupation In France,
enemy held all the beaches.
Pending the Allied involvement,
get into war in all reaches.

French freedom fighters were on hand
In Secrecy awaiting sign
Radio band frequency wire
found messages coming in fine.

News: "Wounds with a languorous heart"
announcing the call to action
D-Day happening in Europe
now readying for all factions

They all left that day know
doors to rap on just empty
expressionless panes on
a stripe of abadoned unfilled
living quarters

cars vacant, an empty
dusty shell. Know where
to transverse. Circuits of
abandoned tubes of roads
and bands of cycleways
with no riders

Only the light scorching
the dark spilling from a
barren streetlight and nuzzling
winds scattering blood red
leaves where animated

The chrome warm
glow was kidnapped
by the milky ghostly
cords of moonlight

On Hawaiian shores forever,
she dances for us all.
Her graceful moves in life,
pick us up, when we fall.

Now, the balloons are carried
to distant, far off shore,
and she is no longer with us,
I'll hold her hand no more.

Mother, dance your best,
for us up in the sky.
I saw your love for all,
there's teardrops in my eyes.

Somewhere over that rainbow
bluebirds will surely fly.
The joy that she gave to us,
Mom's love will never die.

I don’t know how to face life and live, for I only had the chance to die
Losing myself led to my falling, why?
Sacrifices were all that you had known and I’m breaking
Always trying to be the one you loved
The one who’d dance in the rain when I was your beloved
You were a cruel joke and I’m falling into your lies
You comforted me with pain and I don’t hate you
The grand scheme of things, the words you said and I prayed.
I was a cruel joke to you and you never stumble left me and gone away.

I have a new boss
She calls me mom
She tells me what to do
Graveyard shifts, sleepless nights
Always on call too

It's a new job
In An entirely different field
One, where the requirements
I never thought I could fulfill
It's not easy, takes a lot of patience,
A lot of Love and tender care
It may not be a job for everyone
But man, I do love it here!

A bar of seal grey
Duct tape fastened any
verbal communication.

But I was too dazed and
confused, pumped full of
drugs to try to reason.

a prescription I never
asked for. journeying anyway
travelling with no destination
helped the dull pain
pack it's suitcase temporarily

Strings of earth shine gold,
spilled in from the battened
down pane, that had a slight
gash.

where dust motes float,
ribbons of light cut
Through the rotten wood.

Driven from their ancestral homes,
tattoo, from guns enforced.
Spilling over, into the night,
in their minds, confusion coursed.

Stripped of dignity and clothing
belongings sorted in piles.
Lastly, vile claiming of lies
most emphatic denials.

Jewish populous on the streets
sent to death camps without hope.
Shaven heads were compulsory
disinfectant served as soap!