In the summer sun
I remember all of the fun
From years gone by
With moments unforgotten
(Or at least to me)
They remain in the mind
Where others have let them go
It is for me to remember
The summer sun
It must have been fun
Nowhere to run
Other than into your arms
With the sun as my energy
The world at our feet
With our young hearts
It’s only now I look back
& remember everything
As if it was yesterday.
i never said sorry
i never said goodbye
i’m sorry i ever broke your heart
it plays on my mind
i never said
even after all these years
sometimes, just sometimes
i wish i never met you
to save you from the pain
& to save myself
from ever hurting you
i broke your heart
(i don’t know why)
i never said goodbye
i never said sorry
goodbye, sorry
I looked into your eyes and immediately fell in love with you
My breath captured for a moment I could not speak a single word
Something changed that day within my mind, body and soul
It was like the world slowed. almost. to. a. steady. stop.
With only you in my eyes and could not look anywhere else
Yet that was only a single moment in time after the immediacy of meeting you
Like pressing unpause the world became full speed ahead once more
My mind had to think and act with quickness;
Otherwise your impression of me would be somewhat strange
I made you laugh, somehow I did, I made you laugh
Words from my mouth made you giggle making a special smile appear across your face
Somehow I was imparting happiness from one person to the next
Again something changed on that day, I felt love, initial love of a human like never before
History was being made as we spoke and learnt about one another
Time with you, grew, confidence higher, conversations evolved
A trust was building between two hearts that were stronger each day
An hour became a day, a day became a week, a week a month,
A year followed, there was never enough time
I felt love, initial love, but my heart had changed once again. I was in love.
My heart sank when you weren’t there, it grew when I was with you
A physical touch of your hand on mine felt like electric through my body
I had to tell you, those three little words, I love you, as I hinted I did
I read you a passage from a book about love and fondness
We led down in each others arms, it was the perfect moment
The day was drawing to a close as you sat on the edge of the bed
I sat on a chair placing my shoe upon my foot, laces in hand
You leapt towards me, “I love you”, “I love you”
Not once did you say it but twice as you held me tight
You felt what I did, you loved me like I loved you
A kiss on the lips before you left, it felt like the hardest goodbye
Late night the light was still very much bright
As my thoughts of you ran around my mind late into the early morning
My eyes finally closed with you in sight, as tomorrow is another day
I fell asleep that night in sight of love and in deep belief of you and I.
I walked the hills alone
A time before a camera on a phone
Summer sun to winter winds
I’d walk to, from, over and far
The same view in different light
Was always the greatest of sights
A heart never bored of hills near and distant
A heart accelerates as it pushes up the hill
Only soon to be calm as the view entered the eyes
Sitting on the edge with the world below
There is no other silence like it
Giving time to think, properly think
To where the heart is heading
& how to get the best out of life
I have walked the hills alone
Yet you were always with me
In my mind to encourage
In my heart to love
Time may have passed
With new memories created
Whilst others are lost; temporarily
The hills remain all year round
In every light you can imagine
Providing a backdrop to life
I walked the hills alone
Yet never without you
In my heart.
You’re more than a photograph
A memory you are
A living photograph in the memory
Replayed over and over
A photograph can be shown
A memory cannot
Even if described in the best and heartfelt way
It is only your eyes or the eyes of others who were there
Know what you saw that day, at that moment
You’re more than a photograph
You are a thought, a feeling
A human, a so so beautiful person
It’s more than you see in the photograph
More than a lifetime trying to explain
Some memories are kept for a good reason
As are some photographs
To remember the building of a life
& never to forget the people we love.
You before anyone else
Or anything else
It is you before me
Always
& never me
before you
You
Before anyone
Always first
Before me
Before anything
No matter what
You are first in my eyes
My heart
& in every action
I do
Never think
You are after
You are before
Always priority
Before anyone else.
i love you
means
i love you
it never changes
Bristly thistles
Like little missiles
Penetrating clothes to skin
Path after path
Scratch after scratch
Thornes pain fades away
Off route
Thistles deepen
Foot on earth falls
Branches flick
Narrowly missing the eye
Thistles in the thigh
Start to burn
Muscle aches
Bleeding from scratches
Walking through
Thistle patches
Step by step
Pain thrives
Drives the heart
Closer
To where I
Need to be
Never sessile
Like bristly thistles
So no matter how sharpe
Or painful
Your thistle thorns
Will not stop me
Being me.
The light can be changed
to highlight what isn’t seen
yet even on the summer of days
the darkness can still be there
manipulated into a belief of light
that was never actually there
making what we see, a false sense
The light of the image, captured
& whatever is seen
is to be believed
when placed in front of us
If we change the picture
does it hide or highlight the darkness
that is seen to some and not others
We want the light to prevail
sail as far and wide
as the mind cares to take it
With light comes belief
even if that light is manipulated
only wanting to catapult the dark
(whether it be memories, moments or times)
into a place far from this life we now live and love.