Sunday, 6 December 2020

we were such bricks

 

we were such bricks


every song a brick of darkness

mixing a night of tears into the mortar

of a childhood wall 


smashed


in the growing into a youth

of even darker darkness 

between the neon welcomes

and the whinnying light

across a chasm of longing


tightrope


the lads and the girls

the yearns and the tales

bravado in the height

of the light in the pints of laughter

across a chasm of longing

over even darker darkness 


sitting


under the wrap of talking slowing

the breaths of deaf eyes blinking

at the drawn light of rooms

spun around a conversation of two

into one who says no you after you 


smashing


it is to enmesh the darkness

knitted in brows of ships 

that did not pass in the night

but are hauled ashore on a 

deserted island by right

in the darkness not light


decided


to build a wall of black bricks

around a black candle’s wick

circling the wagons around

the smuttering light

born into darkness of

a childhood’s wall

building another night 

of tears in the mortar

of every song that bricked off darkness

who said it’s alright

who said it’s alright



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