My darkened arena waits for meSpotlights cast, sand perfected.A moment we’ve been waiting forThey may think it’s me, but I’m only a partThe star of this show here, is ArtWhere I squeeze my legs and hold him underHe leaps and soars around like thunderThe curve of his legs, muscular and taughtA magnificent creature in myContinue reading “The Star of The Show”
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Only Now
Only now I know how special you wereOnly now I miss your voice calling out to mePleads for help in the middle of the nightNight after nightOnly now Only now I miss your smellMusky, slightly staleOnly now I inhale when I go into your roomJust to smell what’s left of youOnly now Only now IContinue reading “Only Now”
The Final Lesson Of My Youth
You knew there was hope in these watersI felt like I couldn’t feel a thingThe world was growing all around meI had no idea what to do Patting my hair, holding my handsWhat took you away from me, I can’t understandGod knew that I needed you hereProtecting my innocence and fear And as things wouldContinue reading “The Final Lesson Of My Youth”
Real World
All I can hear is the ticking of the clockTick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock.If it were a Tell Tale Heart and I was PoeI’d rip the floorboards up for it to stop.He’s staring at me still, he hasn’t moved for a whileShouting at him to wake up, to face the world.A scary world withContinue reading “Real World”
A Life that’s good
At the end of the day, Lord, I pray I have a life that’s good. I am half Mauritian by background, and I have always been so proud of that. People always asked “what are you mixed with?” and came up with suggestions like Spanish or Italian based on my look and name I suppose.Continue reading “A Life that’s good”
Finding Peace
After my previous post “I look to you”, I realised that I wasn’t as happy as I thought I was. I was scared that I’d didn’t even know what made me happy and that maybe somewhere deep down my mind was fiercely trying to retaliate on my rational and heart protecting feelings. On Monday lastContinue reading “Finding Peace”
Apologies for Yesterday
Would you give me a moment to say that I’m sorry for yesterday’s sadness and the night that was lonely. Would you give me a moment to explain what I can of the uncertainty I feel and then hope you understand. Apologies for yesterday, I think I’ll get better Soon I’ll move past this andContinue reading “Apologies for Yesterday”
I Look to You
For a second you were here. For a second that beautiful smell of that perfume wasn’t the brunette sitting opposite me in a beanie hat, it was you, next to me, dressed up on our way into London for a night out. God that smell, I miss it so much. I close my eyes andContinue reading “I Look to You”
All the same
These days are far away from the last time that we met, I rushed to meet you with my bad jeans on, a jumper and hair still wet. It wasn’t the same, and it was like that for a while, but I always miss your face, your eyes and your smile. At that point thenContinue reading “All the same”
G is for George
As I walked into the room, I barely knew which person was the patient and which was the company. Both women, standing there in front of me, similar ages, similar physical beauty and dress. Then she smiled, and I knew right away who I was to be focusing my energy on for the next 11Continue reading “G is for George”
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