Night Poems Redux

Another 10 short poems

1.

You left before I
had the chance to 
mature enough, 
so that I could truly
understand and value you.

2.

The fears we need to face
are ours alone. Born
from nurture, festered
out of all proportion as
familial myths.

3.

All this time
concerned with all 
the things which
have no bearing
on anything.

You fool.

Can’t you see that?
Even now.

4.

The dark slide,
pushed into place
to stop the
real world interfering
with my true world.
Worry remaining 
un-exposed.

5.

To express and defuse
her fears, she would
take a lump of clay
and use these emotions
to form it into the 
perfect vessel to contain
and dismiss those 
things that pained her.

6.

That you could be
so positive twangs 
at the rational strings
of my credulity.

7.

The easy is
worthless. Bleed
some, get exhausted.
Lose weight, fluids
hair, mental faculty.
This shit is expensive.
And you need to pay.

8.

The only way
that anyone can
be wrong is for them to
tell you that your
opinion is wrong.

9.

Would we lose all
romance for our pasts
if we could recollect
every detail of every
situation?

Would we spend our
days with the burden
of our failures.

Is it, perhaps, only 
forgetfulness and misrecollection
which fill us with such
aching pathos.

10.

What do you care
if these stories and
anecdotes are true.
As long as they
make you laugh or
cry or care; then
an apology from me 
will never be due.

Penzance, Cornwall, 2019. Nikon d750