Saturday, 24 December 2016

Teenager: On Christmas

The warmest time of the year
Under the pelting rain
Where calories burn
In jet-lagged bodies
and wet blabbering mouths
Crystalized on beads of red, yellow and blue

Smiles exchanged
The fragrance of Jasmine floats 
Beneath the ethanol stench
of blue ticks
red ticks
and lipstick stains

Buzz.
He looks onto ebony 
Loneliness spells a larger consequence than the colours of friends forgotten
And fiends who linger 
in a circular pace



Tuesday, 13 December 2016

The Beach

One day, I walked along the beach
Sand in my feet, light and bristly
Caught beneath brittle nails, each
pink with youth, softly tingling
Warmth inching into cold skin

Wet with blood running within
Red unseen
Sand with a buried history