**You Were There

To be More
is everything
you're hungry for
Only your touch on this
moment is too fleeting
to generate anything but
leftover memories of a tradition
A collision of time revealing
in a blur of headlights
what you'd written on the
windowpane once
"I was here"
So be here
with me
then

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**Who's Responsible For This?

I should be afraid
Of what blossoms in the
shadow of a world where
fear is a piano forte we've
all learnt to play
The self righteous
crack of gunfire muzzling
the grim sound of glass
crumbling into the
grave dust staining our
hands with the blood
of innocents
And I am
Aren't you?

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**Fahrenheit Something Or Other

There is no more
Effectual way of stifling
The hard fought freedoms
That have proven so fragile
Than by barring us
From anything that might
Be called #knowledge
A strategy that oddly
Echoes on paper
And in every other way
A blueprint of oppression
I recognise all too well

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**A Losing War**

A fallen shield mirrors
The red of the sinking sun
Staining the edges of
Battered armour where
Where crimson life bleeds
Into rust and pours out what
Remains of a broken heart
In a glass coursing with
The poison of betrayal
Love is a battlefield
And I tire of this war

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**Made You Look (Away)

It has worked so well for
Oh so very long
This #wicked trick where
Sophism is the bird in hand
The powerful hiding behind
Falsely altruistic identities
Words & subtle manipulations
Used to obscure reality
And reverse the normal order
While we're all looking
The other way
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**Suffer The Children

Brittle grey dust motes
Into a beacon picking out
The solemnly youthful
Features of #lost children
Crowned in magic
Lodestars of our last hope
In the gritty calm of
An afternoon punctuated
By the forlorn sound
Of cracked mourning bells
Counting out despair
By the falling
Of tears

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**Mapping The Divide

Our relationship map
Has contour lines stacked
where the sharp edge of
silence drops into a canyon
you're desperate to fill
But the baggage has so far
down to fall & I kept climbing
for that #star you promised
So it'll be a while before
you're on my level
And that's alright
By me

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