Time The Healer

Last week I decided in my infinite wisdom to leave my phone on the train.  I had left a phone on a bus 3 days earlier, that was recovered.  Maybe I was testing the honesty of Londoners.  I do remember not being gracious about the fact that the person had picked up the phone , not handed it in to driver (I know who does that). Then after 3 hours and many texts finally answering the phone and a 30 minute journey £10 later I was reunited with my phone.  

This time it is lost I have to accept that and move on.  Yes I had been using it as my notepad, it contained over 100 poems and my other random thoughts.  Unfortunately at least 20 were not published anywhere, and no I didn’t backup and no I don’t have a copy.   Hindsight that wonderful thing after the event ....

Posted fb 25/05/13

#113 Time The Healer

How quickly we forget

Last week I was in turmoil

Over the loss of my phone

Now I sit here without

Without feeling alone

What a difference time makes

It does really heal

Whether it is a numbness

Or an inability to feel

I have moved on

It is all just a vague memory

At the time I thought it was awful

Such a catastrophe.

I hope there have been lessons learned

New pages have been turned

I now look for the reason

I feel that somehow I have got off lightly

That brings an ironic smile to my face

These things we value

Are so easily replaced

Although when loss

We make all that fuss

Now I sit and reason

That I have enough

We Have Come a Long Way

Things we take for granted, we take the fact that we are here for granted,  it all could have been so very different.


posted fb 24/05/13

#110 We Are The Survivors

I am a survivor

let me tell you why

It was all stacked against me

I had to swim to be free

With no eyes I couldn’t see

I am here to proclaim

I am here today

I am the modern miracle

You are the same

We take for granted

Not realising

How difficult it is

To survive with those chances

Yet every time it gets difficult

We are ready to throw the towel in

I never swam all this way

To simply sink and give in

So if you ever question your existence

I am here to say you have been persistent

You are part of the resistance

Every challenge is a gift

Live in the present

Don’t focus on the past

Remember how bleak it all was

In the start

I don't like Travelling

I get so stressed by flying.  I like to do everything by the book.  The first thing I do is turn up extra early.  My biggest fear is being left.



Posted fb 23/05/13

#111 A fine Bottle of Beaujolais

I am like a bottle of expensive wine

I don’t travel well

I like the idea of travelling

As soon as the day arrives

I realise this is my personal hell

First you have to check in

There are codes to remember

You’ve got to get it right

Get it wrong

There is no boarding this flight

Why do planes leave at such ridiculous times?

Some too early, some late at night

Whatever time there always is a long wait

First at the main terminal

Then at the gate

Which is always a long walk away

If I wanted to walk all this way

I would have not booked the plane

Somehow mysteriously we are in our seats

Now the wait while the cabin crew

Carry out all their safety checks, complete

I don’t mind take it off

With so much praying I figure we’ll be alright

The higher we fly the better I feel

Sometimes there is a little turbulence

Then we start to descend

Now I am excited

I can no longer pretend

I step off to foreign land

With my passport and camera in hand

Ready for an adventure

An adventure in a foreign land