World Without End

Stop.
Breathe.
Awaken on a hillside, your eyelashes heavy with dew.
Look around you.
Slowly begin to make your way down the hill, towards the city.

As I huddle toward the shower I issue a hasty “I love you”, held out across the hall like a reaching arm, for reassurance. There is a faint guilt attached to it. It’s not given with the expectancy of a return, but rather as a reaffirmation of my allegiance; of my self. Who am I? [...]

There is a time in the middle of the morning when houses lie empty. Those who live there have upped themselves, scrubbed and readied and hotbellied out of the door. They’ve many of them had to do this in a strange kind of deliberate trance, because they all have certain parts of their minds which [...]

Heard you talking about me today
Shouldn’t have listened but you’re so good with people,
I wanted to hear you dance with them
(And halfway with three sharp words
Cut me apart and let me go)
The conversation turned on unhurried
You had become one of them
And I in that cold moment
falling
Like a strip of silk
weightless
it took so little effort to [...]

There was a man who decided to build a house. The Lord told him clearly that if he built on the sand, his house would surely fall. So he chose the strongest rock to build on, and laboured for many months and years building his house. Finally, when it was ready, he moved his whole [...]

The Stupidest Thing I Have Done This Year
When we do everything right and it still goes wrong
When we cannot make anyone understand
When we realise that we have trusted the wrong people
When we remember the plans we had
Lord have mercy on us.