Do not hide in the shadow of yourself
take the light from under the bushel
the one you saved for rainy days
Yes, I know the hour is late and you are afraid
just breath, this too will pass
rest until the time is right
Even when the wolf rattles at the windows, use the glass to reflect
let the moonstones in your pocket map a new way
Don't push on the door it will open of its own accord
Wait for the great bear, till he stretches, once again, towards the light

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Even now
I can't find a way
to untangle
your heart
from mine

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Broken Britain
Elon Musk tweets
Civil war is inevitable
while I think about the money he could never spend in a thousand lifetimes
Instead of hate I spread kindness, it's free
I ask the taxi driver how he's coping
he shows me videos of a friends taxi on fire
I sympathise and my kind words rebuild a lost connection
we are all human
A friend who's children are mixed race
is scared to let them go to the park
I acknowledge her fear with a hug and she sobs in my arms
Every where I go I listen to people's stories
Instead of hate I spread kindness, it's free

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We follow the brook as it meanders
Liquid string it pulls us to the sea
Atop the rocks we sit
We are meerkats watchful
holding space for each other
We weave tressels, stories, and blood
Mother and child
The sea calls to us
water filled womb she births us anew
here we are safe
here we are complete
as the moon draws her tides
to caress us

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Look at you
folding away
that which no longer serves
new wings unfurling

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Vulnerable
a sheet barely covering
battle wounded scars
a cut for every closed heart
Love blind
your fingers trace my skin
reading braille for the first time
Full of wonder
grateful for the knowledge

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Signs of summer

It's easy to get lost, along these concrete streets
Brick buildings and cold hard steel are no company for the lonely traveller
Instead, rise early
just as the day kisses the night
barefoot, step out in the light
plant your feet in emerald blades of green
feel how you connect to nature's rhythm
a welcome embrace from an old friend
Breath in the still of the day
till your lungs are overflowing glasses of calm
Now listen to the earth as she ushers in all that is bountiful
and give up your heart to rejoicing
as a dawn chorus serenades you back to life

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Do you remember the day you gave me a piggyback home
my knee bleeding from the broken glass
my tears soaking through the back of your t-shirt
while my blood carved crimson tributaries
into the length of your chinos
how you said they'll wash
when I cried
Dad, waiting at the front door with a belt
a brothers punishment for not keeping his little sister safe
I want you to know that none of it was your fault
But isn't that the problem with death
it's too late to apologize

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In the dream world
When I reach for you
You're always there

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In the second world war
the Germans rounded up the Jewish people and shuttled them to concentration camps
Woman and children suffered the same fate as the men
All were civilians this was not war it was a barbaric act of genocide
Today it is the turn of a Jewish leader to show compassion
But the truly ignortant do not learn lessons
Instead of trains he uses fear to move the people to Rafah
an open air concentration camp
So he can change the course of history
While we watch and say nothing from the comfort of our armchairs

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