Sonnet 1
It feels strange now to think of you, like a poem
or a frightened song towards a thin spring
where I was sad with some sad synonym
beside the toughest bastard, my Adios King.
Paradise when will I look you in the eye again?
Paradise come wrap your arms around me.
Paradise that’s why I’m alone but I can’t complain.
That’s why I’m alone with pale thought as stain.
But there’s this feeling somewhat shackled inside me,
which reaches up to move my mind, with a touch
of control, to start writing, be free,
to write, looking right back, to only write too much.
Such is me, a lousy student, who turned
round misery into something he learned.
Bird (that blue in your eyes)
Little ballads, trembling,
To sing. Your disguise,
Both beautiful and kind,
That blue in your eyes.
Ceiling like a greenhouse,
The sun’s in the sky.
But I can’t help but look,
At that blue in your eyes.
You’re open-shouldered, out
For a smoke. As I
Recycled old cans,
Jus’ watchin’ your hair,
By the window-glass doors.
You gave your verse and I
Gave mine. Delicate,
Past words of suff’ring,
Sad-faced but fine.
Soft voices, softer still,
You waved to me goodbye,
Do you remember those fogged street-lights?
How that blue swarmed in her eyes?
When loud moonlight pushed down,
Like the rubble of the sky,
I had to find my own way back.
Won’t you tell me I’m better than Jack?
I don’t know how to say it,
Don’t know if it’s wise,
I want to write when I’m near you,
Near that blue in your eyes.
Busy days, quiet days,
Tables one through three.
Will our story be done,
When I graduate?
Me’n my lacklustre words,
Don’t know if we’re bi,
This the last time I’ll write,
’Bout that blue in your eyes.