birksy

"I use a feather, I use it well, lie back, let it fall on skin so beautiful, lie back content that I want you so much. I will take my time, make you forget just where you are, perhaps even who you are..."

"Found a poem, thought you'd like it, lie back, rest your head here, let me stroke your tender skin, as I recount the words to you. But wait, the words have gone, and I remember 'tis hard to use true ..."

"The wind has died, but the wind counts for nothing, what counts, is all inside for us, all between these silken sheets, we are enclosed. We will not shake from what we do, we will not know the days fr..."

"Sweet release, come ease my pain, these times are hard, and though salvation is near, it is not yet near enough. Sweet release, you make me smile, and my soul is calmed for moments, letting other thou..."

"You say now I’m useful, but that’s because of, not in spite of. You say it would have helped, but it’s because of, not in spite of. You wonder who I am, and that’s because of, not in spite of, release..."

"Their hands released, their minds let go, their feelings ceased, they’ll never know, their touch again, for now it’s changed, just friends again, now just estranged. Written February 5th, 2002 © on F..."

"Sitting still in half light, catching up with words, he concentrates, hard, he plays with what he’s doing, first this way, then that, he wants to know more, yet it all’s gone ahead of him, but slowly ..."

"I don’t think he’ll mind, it’s been annoying him as well, has tutted every time, it played its tune. Come on, before he gets back, open your hand, release it to its freedom, back to mobile phone land,..."

"I look up, you are there senses suddenly heighten, looking forward to our time together. I make my move, you respond, and so we ease through our worlds, tension falls, as our eyes upon each other. Suc..."

"I’m learning this lesson all the time, and it just keeps pulling me through, for every down, it gives an up-side, for every frown I find a smile. Keep going the same way to work, though, in truth, I ..."

"Oops, got up late again, just like the old days, I was thinking thoughts that kept me awake, just like the old, old days. But, of course, it’s not the same anymore, I’m changed, more responsible, gone..."

"This ain't first class, it's not even second, I sit, though, content, on the guards van floor, rocking, thinking of you, our conversation, wish I'd told you at the end, that, despite what you say, you..."

"The door is locked, but that won't stop me, there's another way, and if that, too, is blocked, there'll be another, for resourceful is what I am, who I'll always be, and when it comes to you, I'm gonn..."

"I have a window on the world, and it just got a little wider, could see a little further, could see a little brighter, and all because you rang, made me feel a whole lot lighter, what a magnetic pair ..."

"I don't have a car, nor a bike, just a bison, and it gets me from the A to the B. People don't beep, or shout from their cars, for fear I may just set it free. The bison, my friend, it knows what to ..."

"That man walked a dog, which just wasn't there, you could see it quite clearly, in his unswerving stare. Something large, an Alsatian, or Retreiver, perhaps, definitely not something that's small and..."

"Didn't want to go, but I'm clever enough to know that it was a test, if I had said the wrong thing, it would have been worse. Course, you were on the losing end, don't think I didn't hate that, won't ..."

"Ain't fate grand? Plays putty with your heart, the girl the end of lengthway land, and if that ain't brown enough, you don't get to say a simple good night, sweet dreams. Written February 7th, 2002 ©..."

"Forty-eight hours so cold and foreign a place my other half, gone. Written February 7th, 2002 © on Feb 07 2002 08:39 AM PST, Simon Birks   0 • 1"

"Left in peace, with you, I touch every part of you, kiss every piece of you, feel every place of you, left in peace, with you, won't stay peaceful very long... Written February 7th, 2002 © on Feb 07 ..."

"Timing to perfection, she waits alone at the gates, with a watch in her head, records every train that goes through, tries to capture a face or two. People pass her by, think she’s mad, but she’s just..."

"Every waking second, thoughts turn to you, turn to you again, what you might be doing, thinking, saying, playing. I try and pretend this cannot be, but before I can discount you, you are there again,..."

"Sons, place your hands on my heart, it will forever be yours. Hold it together, for its thousand cracks may one day shatter. Try and remember me, your hand in my hand, that I love you, that it's not y..."

"I draw my strength from you, know they'll be enough to keep you running though, my Montrose dynamo. However bad it gets, I only think of you, of your words, your tenacity, and I can stand from my stoo..."

"Chasing the cat, through I won’t ever win, he’s been up all night, can still scour walls and fences that I simply puff my cheeks at. He doesn’t come near, regards me slyly, apprehensively, here’s a ca..."

"The tree has a kink in it, bold as brass, smack in the centre, it stands so bent, as if it laughs at the other trees around. I can’t help but wonder what caused this shape, as if it thought twice abou..."

"Where’s the arithmetic gone? People read, I write, yet maths cannot be seen, is it not the in-thing on a train? But wait, what am I saying? We all sit calculating, and though most times it is not numb..."

"Someone’s lit a candle in the window, a heart shaped one, a beacon of their love and affection, to be seen by everyone who passes. It’s very sweet, a warm glow lights inside me as I watch, it warms pl..."

"Today they say they mourn, but next week they’ll pour out all the facts, the scorn, the lurid little details they can find, and what they’ll say is the public want to know, and, of course, in utter sa..."

"I thought there was a sign here, when I came past the other day, it pointed clearly which way I ought to go. Now, it’s gone, I can see a hole in the ground, some rotting wood, a hole in my heart, now ..."

"There you are, inviting, in the extreme. Can't wait to get you home, play with you a while - like a dream, yet right in front of me, I smile, I have seen my dinner this eve. Don't move away, as if I'd..."

"Standing still on the platform, rain's just as wet as I remember, the wind just as bracing as the last time, but unlike others here, I smile, for I think of you, warm, very inviting, imagine your soft..."

"Perhaps I should have studied music, or the arts, could have painted nails black, pierced body parts till it hurt, perhaps I should have painted pictures, could've cut my bloody ear off, but no, I ch..."

"So long as you want to speak to me, So long as you want to be with me, So long as you want to dream of me, I'll never say, so long. Written February 11th, 2002 © on Feb 11 2002 08:03 AM PST, Simon Bi..."

"The bird caught the tree, it’s little feet splayed out, it landed on the branch, pinpoint accuracy, never letting go. And while the rest of us spin, on worlds both inside and out, the little bird cli..."

"Walking the mud flats, at low tide, digging for worms, sometimes she finds, sometimes it's not worth the effort. She puts what she finds in the humane plastic tub, they all look the same, just right f..."

"He sells sea shells on the sea shore, but what does he do, when there isn't any more, Will he rob from the rich, and sell to the poor, He sells sea shells, but just until half four. Written February 1..."

"And there's the reason I want you, such simple words, they set me alight, bring spirit to my eyes, rids sadness from within, you are part of me, whether you know it or not, like it or not, believe it ..."

"She won't be quiet, she gives a running commentary, a running down commentary, on the bleeding bloody obvious, her husband and son are beaten down, can't speak as they'll just be spoken over, she alwa..."

"Want you next to me, see what I see, experience this life together, and walk not alone, but hand in hand, heart within heart. It's another world, yet not foreign to me, I hold you near, from afar, a b..."

"Close your eyes, lie back, the lights on bright above, I take felt tips from my box of tricks, look at the canvas I have to draw on. It's like drawing on the mona lisa, a beauty in itself, now marked ..."

"I drive the JCB that digs the holes that the boxes go in, the boxes that we go in, when we go. There wasn’t a course for this sort of work, just fell into it, if you pardon the pun. And I don’t really..."

"Got up in a hurry, something I said, maybe something I didn’t say? Where’s your destination going far away, had enough of this view, brand new goals to pursue? Can’t blame you for that, it’s a cold gr..."

"Pressed back into holes in the tunnel wall, he stands, sees our faces looking out at the bricks, in his fingers a black biro that silently ticks his register of souls. He’s not a bad man, you know, j..."

"There’s a bird who hates this train, he flies high above, each weekday at eight, trying so hard to avenge the poor fate of his children. And that’s all he does, swoop low at the beast, cannot possibl..."

"Can't count for toffee, Can't speak for cream, Can't wait for chocolate, with my highland dream. Written February 13th, 2002 © on Feb 13 2002 05:22 AM PST, Simon Birks   0 • 12"

"Every second, the cells I am divide, live, die, yet I continue to be me. Who I am is not held within the physical, so when this body goes, I will continue, divide even still, and find many, many, new ..."

"How petty can I be? Pretty petty I guess, could moan or pick holes in all that we do, but I don't, can accept others faults, other points of view, accept I'm not liked, as well as loved, too. How pett..."

"The orange sleeping bag, curled up, says a word, says 'sleepy' to me, so I close my eyes, pretend to be material, all warming for you, wrap yourself inside me, and do the zip up tight. Written Februar..."

"The giant millipede, all wriggling, all knowing, sits on my foot, all wriggling, all knowing, sizes me up, all wriggling, all knowing, then pecked by my beak, all wriggling, but definitely not all kno..."

"I offer my palms, give me yours, too, we will hold on together, we'll say, me and you. .In the palm of your hands .Rests the fate of my heart .Treat it very tenderly .Lest it break apart See m..."

"Stepped on a star, felt it beneath my bare feet, didn’t open my eyes, couldn’t face looking down. Reached out with my hand, took the star in five fingers, held it real tight all the day, not many sta..."

"No more Valentines Days for us, she speaks in one syllables, hates with full force, keep quiet, try to let it run its course. Written February 14th, 2002 © on Feb 14 2002 12:06 AM PST, Simon Birks   ..."

"Building them up, it’s started already, they do it so well, they don’t stand a chance, building it up, to come crashing down, all just a matter of time. Written February 14th, 2002 © on Feb 14 2002 1..."

"Eyes not on the road, no road where I’m going, not built them yet, gonna get my shoes dirty, hands won’t be clean anymore, kneeling seems too good, and standing? No, understanding, but when I find my ..."

"She hums so melancholy, it's barely carried on the breeze, but I can hear it, want to bring it into me. So sweetly down the scale, then moving high, she hums so sadly, I am all but drawn inside. Writ..."

"Locked up for days, they keep walking past, no clue that we're here, let's keep it that way, what wonderful times, and wonderful strokes, under secret covers, we're so full of love. Don't want it to ..."

"The ground gave way beneath my feet, I thought I was walking, but found I was falling, thought I was falling, but found I was floating, able to direct my descent where I needed to be, perhaps even sur..."

"Because it won’t matter what I do, because they won’t think where I am, because they won’t call my name at night, because they will think that I left them, I won’t let them down, again. Written Februa..."

"I wake, change into a cloud of dust, move within the world, within the people, soar high in the air, and deep underground, wonder how we could do it better, listen to everyone’s problems, try to const..."