Red apple treat

Like the addict there's a craving, 
appetite for the need.
Fantasies thriving, 
irritation for greed.

Summon a resistant, 
so stunning too weak.
Redolence, sweet,
oh to taste the 
red apple treat. 

Call on divinity, 
interrogate the same faith,
inside demand, so unsafe.

Whirlwinds, wisp a whisper,
of a needing inducing sin, 
ferocious, the conflict within.  

Remembering

Feels like I've been here so long.
So I strain to think back,
to when things weren't so wrong.

But all I see is my hands 
cuffed in a sweatbox. 
So I strive even harder,
trying to forget about locks. 

No! I'm in a cold court cell
and like a scared snail,
I retreat alone into my shell.

Still thinking. endeavouring to remember. 
All I can see is a man in a wig,
dictating my future, how I am going to live.

'Stand up! Sit down!'
Fixed on thinking 
It's causing me to frown.

And then, I remember!
the girls! the beach! the sun!
back in the days when it was fun.

Attempting to stay in this memory,
until this time has past.
Getting there, can't come too fast. 

Tsunami

A deep herd of uncontrollable
wild, galloping
white-maned monsters.

Stampeding ruthlessly through
smashing, damaging 
and consuming 
structures of man.

Ragefully and merclesley
crashing with great might.

Frizzling paled threight boulders
not slowing but speeding
installing fear, into
the heart of mankind.

Powerful pearly mountain waves
gracefully destroying.

Destroying the illusion
we are greater than
Him?

 

like a gorilla in the zoo

There used to be this gorilla, 
in Southport zoo!
And what a grumpy gorilla,
he was too.

Sit all day behind 
that dirty rotten screen.
All the kids would bang, pull faces,
quite frankly, be mean.

How I used to wind that 
poor gorilla up,
eating, sleeping, shitting 
in that hut.

It was 1991 or maybe two.
It's now many years later,
an I'm the gorilla in the zoo!

Eating, sleeping, shitting
in this cell.
But it's screws not kids
giving me the hell.

A squandered life
that should be blessed.
I knew why, that poor gorilla,
couldn't even have guessed.

Angels Of Mercy (NHS)

The enemy came raging, 
waging war on us all.
with no defence, 
for us they did not stall. 

Destroying from inside, 
our cells as it's host,
in their bravery 
we heard no boast. 

Angels of mercy 
we are grateful for your grit,
the nations indebted, 
you make each proud to be a Brit. 

In this conflict 
you are our frontline,
the countries very best 
at this critical time. 

We were hit with force ,
 so stay in,
 so they can stay on course. 

Do your bit 
whilst they go the extra yard,
they will soon be doted 
but for now they strike hard.

Please equip them properly 
with every piece, 
so they can smash us to victory 
like Stokes is at the crease.  


Keeping Faith

I am unsure why, when I'm alone in this cell,
I start to dwell, on heaven and hell.

Much I have lost within these four walls,
lost, gone, insignificant to all.

Wanting right now, as my mind is dense.
In this hole, this hole of belligerence. 

Salvation from above can it really rescue me?
before my soul drowns, in this adversity. 

The ringing of despair cannons of every wall.
with night after night of solitude
I get so dazed, and confused with it all.

However, my heart knows there is more,
So I turn to the cross. 
And the mercy of God I do pray for.

So on this perilous path, however unsafe.
I will drip away this stone, I will always keep faith.