Free

Throat seizing 
Under your hands
Begging 
Please don’t do this 
Is it this time? 
When the dark engulfs
I won’t see the light of day again
Silver…

Invisible Illness

A free verse poem

Chronic Pain

A Prayer to the Stars

A Poem for Star week

Narcissus

A throne built on your delusions
You are a God among peasants
Our lowly lives you crush because you can
I can only imagine the thrill of…

Forever gone

Free verse poem

We were the lost ones
Sitting by a hospital bed 
with wild eyes
At four in the…

Wonderland

This is a poem I wrote a few years ago when sectioned on a Psychiatric unit. I am living with the impact of complex trauma which sometimes…

Spirit in ink

Words scrawled hastily across a crumpled page
I didn’t think too much of it then
Your mind was always stringing sonnets together
Ink…

All I Want Is You

A Poem

All the loose ends
Bind my chest
Suffocating in words unsaid
Staring at an empty chair…

Nightmare

A free verse poem

Hollow screams wrack my lungs
as the eyes in my reflection roll back
Fingers crawl…

Here With Me

I’m pacing up and down this room
Heart racing, I don’t know what to do
I’m fading, just from the thought of you
Not being here with me