Little Earth Prayer

I lay down and wait........ Until not a sound

Placing my face on the cold of the ground

Then whisper my feelings to earth and below

My words sink deep...

Absorbing my chant...

Downward and downward these little words go

They echo in caverns 

Repeating like drips

The love in the words that had spilled from my lips

Now seeping through hollows 

To heal and repair

Reciting my little earth prayer 

Broken Children

My old man he wasn't much

But had the loudest laugh in town

Him a father? Not as such 

He'd turn my whole world upside down

His eyes like mine the colour blue

Were passed to him and then to me

But on my birth, or my debut 

A different world I'd see

The horrors that would come my way

I'd store them somewhere deep inside

But on occasions, like a play

They did not want to hide

And in my nightmares standing there

The very ghoul that I would fear

Would laugh out loud without a care

And whisper in my ear

"Hush little baby don't you cry

Nobody cares if you live or die"

Then laughter fills the room with dread

The room of fear within my head

The sheets I'd pull around me tight

While through the darkness shadows crept 

No comfort in the black of night

Where broken children slept

I Wonder If She'll Miss Me Come Tomorrow?

I wonder if she'll miss me come tomorrow?

Or feel the kiss I left her, with a sigh

I guess she'll never know, that when I quietly closed the door

I wiped away a teardrop from my eye

I know that she'll be strong, and she'll get over me

She'd never let her friends know of her pain

She'll smile and just pretend I'd never mattered

I'm hoping that she'll fall in love again

I'd told her from the start that I'd be leaving

That I'm not the kind to stick around too long

I warned her that my heart was not for loving 

Yet she came so close to prove my heart was wrong 

In years to come, I hope she might forgive me

And understand she nearly changed my mind

And with a smile she may remember sweetly

That in leaving I was only being kind 

Un-Repaired

No monster came to me at night

No scary creature called my name

Yet whispers from my nightmare world

Still speak a child's shame

When darkness covered everything 

Including who I came to fear

The boogieman with breath unclean

Seemed somehow very near

The gentle touch from fingers strong 

Remain upon my adult skin

The scars he left may not be seen 

But still they bleed within

So who I am I cannot like

As in the mirror him I see

The eyes that looked upon his child

Won't ever set me free