Smell the coffee
Tender sips of hot coffee I attempt to wake up Pick the crust from my tear ducts Tongue nudges over the sides of my mouth Small intimate...
Look back and learn, look forward and grow
Look back and learn, look forward and grow Wise advice at a time I’m not sure where to go Or what to do, or who I am But it’s advice from...
Negative space
Incomplete, lacking, without Scenes and frames with missing parts Family photos, the pram, the cot Negative spaces filling our hearts...
In the sky
My son is in the sky In its colours and tones In it’s clouds and stars and movement In the sunset and its glow My son is in the water...
3 months: before and after
It happened unexpectedly - much sooner than we’d thought Though in theory we knew the risks, understood it might And changed our lives...
Who am I
After all, Who am I to tell the sun not to shine? What good would that do? So I say, OK fine. Shine, while I sit here in the dark But...
My mask
This loss has left me vulnerable My thoughts and feelings spill out They leak, they pour I try to plug the gaps Apply pressure Caving in...