My breath stopped.

You stole it.

With just one look into your eyes.

You smiled.

And my ribs opened up,

Letting my heart

out of my chest.

It flew to you.

And you have it still.

Always will.

You may never know it,

But you carry around,

a piece of me.

Unwittingly.

But permanently.

© M.H.

To salve a lonely wait,

Too quick to add the weight,

Of cares, woes and worries.

To calm, and not frustrate,

Too curved to come out straight,

To journey’s end it hurries.

To blind the seeing eye,

Too hasty with a lie,

To quell a bogus thirst.

To wave it all goodbye,

Too clear to reason why,

Limitation at its worst.

To accept this dark malaise,

Too tired to walk the maze,

Of life, work and sleep.

To wage war that never pays,

Too dark in sunlight’s rays,

To see beyond the keep.

Each tick and every tock,

The mocking of the clock,

The time just drifts away.

A heart under key and lock,

A life full of taking stock,

Is an awful price to pay.

© M.H.

A trail of stars,

Cosmic dust,

Are left in my wake.

I am a fledgling sun,

Learning to run,

Moving for movements’ sake.

I am following Venus.

A peal of thunder,

That no-one hears,

Is my aural corona.

I am a whisper in the dark,

A tiny spark,

Waiting my time to go supernova.

I am following Venus.

So cast your eyes,

To the darkened skies,

And you may just see me.

I am bound by astrology,

To make your wish a certainty,

And it’s all I am meant to be.

I am following Venus.

© M.H.

Amidst the throes of hope,

Weak yellow flames gutter.

Wishes that dance on lips,

Pleading tongues that stutter.

These words fall upon stone,

Bounce, and vainly flutter.

Dreams encased in steel,

Taut traps that do not mutter.

The quiet footfalls of promise,

Suddenly clang and clatter.

The profile of expectation,

That sunshine cannot flatter.

Our fortunes’ gradual thinning,

While others’ grows fatter.

Spend it while you can,

For in the end it does not matter.

© M.H.   

I slept,

The sleep of turmoil,

You were gone,

But your shadow remained.

I woke,

In the dark, afraid,

Your shadow was here,

At the foot of my pillowed prison.

I froze,

All the shadows became you,

And then your face,

Swam out of the dark toward me.

I cried,

”It is not you!

The eyes are not the same!

You are only the shadow of my love!”

I begged,

”Please return to me”

But the imposters face,

Sank back into the shadowed sea.

I woke, again,

From the dream of shadows,

And your face was lost,

Like the imposter of love you became,

Before you left.

© M.H.

Sitting here,

Soaked in fear,

Of people and their faces.

No-one near,

For me to hear,

The pulse of tiny spaces.

Just this screen,

And inbetween,

The keyboard and the races.

It would seem,

But just a dream,

Full of useless graces.

All that has been,

All that is seen,

Everything interlaces.

There is no gleam,

To this broken scene,

I’m erasing all the traces.

But I’m serene,

And evergreen,

A product of disgraces.

This recurrent theme,

A frozen scream,

While the ghost of me paces.

© M.H.

The past is a shadow

you can never outrun.

Even if you stay out of the sun.

All your sins and deeds

leave an indelible mark,

that silhouettes you even in the dark.

All your secrets

Are cast into the light,

Like poisoned petals.

Your regrets are all the songs,

You’ve forgotten how to sing.

The future is a chasm

You can never quite span.

Even with the most precise of plan.

All your hopes and dreams

Are crushed into dust.

Your heart, unfulfilled, it lies in rust.

All your wishes

Are alone in the night

Like hard-won medals.

Your desires are all the songs,

You still know how to sing.

Oh Look!

I’ve strayed into the sunshine!

© M.H.

I wish you’ld come.

Help me close down the doors of heaven.

Come into this quiet world,

And puncture this raging silence.

I’m so scared of never feeling alive.

I chased myself into the dark

And now there’s nowhere else to run.

I wish you were a destination,

I could turn to when I need someone.

I’m afraid that time just passed me by.

I wish you’ld arrive,

At the lowest of my low ebbs.

Smash the ice around this heart,

Open up the cracks, and let in the light.

I fear I’ve lived my life like the blind.

I wish, I wished so hard,

That you’ld see you in me,

The spark of life and turn it on,

And fan the fire high.

I wish I knew you in another life.

The one I wished for me.

 © M.H.