This Time of Year

People laughing full of Christmas cheer

Some people haunted by this time of year

The past hurts us more than we’ll ever know

Memories return we just can’t let them go

 

Family and friends who have sadly passed on

The feelinngs of love, they’re never gone

Wanting to hold them with a loving embrace

Oh to have that chance to stand face to face

 

People who are lonely fighting back the tears

Drowning their sorry thoughts in spirits and beers

That’s not the answer, the escape is short lived

They don’t want sympathy, just the time you can give

 

Children watching their friends with the best toys

Desperately searching inside for their broken joys

Parents over spending forcing themselves in debt

Not realising the bank will never forget

 

 

Our hearts go out to the Christmas advert on tv

Plucking at our heart strings hoping that we’d all agree

This year a penguin and a football match in no man’s land

The power of advertisements, the power of the brand

 

Christmas day, a full table with an empty chair

A place set to show how much we always care

A time for reflection, love and peace

A time for all the fighting finally to cease

Walk Away

You know how I feel about you, that was never in any doubt

We knew it would be difficult but we would never scream and shout

Our love grew stronger throughout the times, both good and bad

I always thought we would survive because I knew the love we had

 

Every time I looked at you or held your hand so tight

I always felt the luckiest man and it always felt so right

I never thought the day would come when we walked a different path

I never thought I see a frown where I once made you laugh

 

You had a choice that you had to make, I was always going to lose

I didn’t think that your family would ever make you choose

I understand although it’s hard but what will be will be

You tried hard to compromise but your family wouldn’t agree

 

I gave my loving heart to you and it will always have an open door

We cried at our decision and couldn’t believe what we had to endure  

I wish you love and happiness and in my heart you’ll always stay

But I’ll never forget that moment that I had to walk silently away

Four Walls

Another holiday season upon us

Gatherings commence

Shopping becomes such a fuss

Spending every pound and pence

 

Arriving back home to an empty house

The coldness fills the air

Haunting silence broken by a mouse

Scurrying totally unaware

 

These four walls become my friend

Speaking intensively

My thoughts I begin to surrender

Listening comprehensively

 

Another day over, back at the wall

My hopes I gladly invest

Praying silently that I won’t fall

These walls they know me best

Foolish Love

Thought that this was a sign sent from heaven above

Who would have thought that I would eventually fall in love

The moment I saw you I didn’t need a second glance

Just enough courage inside to think that I had a chance

 

I don’t think I ever believed in love at first sight

But the moment you came into my life I knew it was right

That warm sensation that I have just hearing your beautiful name

Would be great to play doubles for once and leave the single game

 

But my love and affection you didn’t really want to see

You played me like a fool but you didn’t want to hurt me

Again I’ve been a fool who thought that this time it would be true

I thought I found something special I thought it was you

 

I thought meeting you would be the final piece of my life jigsaw

Most parts of my life feel so rich but my love life is still so poor

Do you only have one chance of meeting the right person for you?

I honestly believe that I’ll never meet anyone who is as special as you

A shadow on the street

Unseen as you walk on by

Cast aside, another social lie

Life at rock bottom but what do you care

Too busy to notice, not even a stare

 

The coldness of day echoes in the night

The sleeping bag cold, zipped up tight

Tired, alone another night of no sleep

Life’s cruel mountain has become too steep

 

Not sure how or why I ended up here

I once was full of Christmas cheer

Now no loved ones, no-one to kiss

It’s the simple things in life you miss

 

My body shakes from the cold within

My once padded jacket is wearing thin

Unable to find the strength to move

Unable to get out of this downward groove

 

My body sore, I’m not in good health

Our lives judged on power and wealth

When you’re out look down at your feet

Please be aware of the shadows on the street

Cosy Nights

Dark nights settled in

Sunshine wearing thin

Rain tapping the window frame

A warm glow hearing your name

 

fire burning, flames flicking

night beginning, clock ticking

Wind howling in the cold air

Seeing you I can’t help but stare

 

Hot chocolate, steaming cup

Dog barking, next door’s pup

Our bodies wrapped together tight

Hands together feeling just right

 

Hearts warm, eyes meet

Chocs open, perfect treat

Kiss goodnight you are the best

Dream big, try and get some rest

A Dash of Colour

All I ever saw was the world a wash with grey

Then you walked into my life that fateful day

Your beaming smile graced your perfect face

The greyness gone, the world now a colourful place

 

The trees that once looked so dour and lifeless

Suddenly perked up with leaves and brightness

Swaying silently in the breeze as you walked on by

You make me feel like I’m the luckiest guy

 

The orange torch shone like it’s never shone before

Creating the prefect shadow of you, once more

A blossoming red rose in your hair took centre stage

The colour that was once trapped has escaped the cage

 

Now you are in my life I see the world completely different

Will you be the one to break my unknown fear of commitment

My eyes once only saw the greyness, gloom and the black

But now I have found colour, thankfully,  I won’t be going back

Pawns in a Dangerous Game

The usual gossip about teacher’s holidays and pay
They never seem to mention the 14 hour day
The bureaucracy involved each day at work...
Drives you round the bend, it drives you berserk

Every government moving the goalposts just once more
Teachers trying to keep up with the ever changing law
A new curriculum, a new initiative and a new agenda in mind
Wish they would leave us alone but then they’re not that kind


Expecting children to make the same progress every year
Pressure, pressure, pressure teachers teaching with fear
Everything focused around the core subject rule
Government not valuing an all round creative school


Teachers not being allowed to do what they do best
Another policy passed, please give it all a rest
Mountains of paperwork not effecting the child
Missing lunch, as more paper work needs to be filed


Government officials observing every move you make
Giving a judgement on performance, a career at stake
Outstanding teachers leaving the profession all feeling the same
Teachers believing they are pawns in the government’s dangerous game

Accepting Defeat

I honestly thought I didn’t have a chance

But what I would give to have one more dance

The room would empty leaving us on the floor

If love is an illness then this would be the cure

 

However I won’t have that moment at all

For my advances have hit the invisible brick wall

I looked into your eyes and I knew I would fail

But you, my love, will always be my holy grail

 

It’s time for me to move on but not sure I can

It hurts so much to see you with another man

Linking his arm and laughing at his joke

My heart didn’t melt it just simply broke

 

Which way to turn I honestly don’t know

One thing for certain I’ve hit another low

This is my attempt at accepting a defeat

Hoping that one day my heart will again beat

Fairytale Adventure

Princes and Princesses and dragons from the east

All thrown together to fight the undefeated beast

The adventure takes place in a far away land

Mountains and forests and untouched sand

 

Some royalty involved with a King or a Queen

The black night suffers from being a has been

A quest or a journey takes us to another place

Time running out, for the return is now a race

 

A bridge to cross, the rapids too wide

The night closing in, need somewhere to hide

A problem occurs, a twist in the tale

The quest looks doomed, certain to fail

 

The music begins, the hero’s on his way

Trying desperately to win and save the day

The beast killed, the princesses heart is won

Now that’s how a fairytale adventure is done

She Doesn’t Know

Chorus
She doesn’t know how she makes me feel
She doesn’t know this love is real
She doesn’t know my heart she will steal
She doesn’t know at all


Verse
How can I make her notice me
What you get with me is what you see
She’s got the looks and the personality
She’s let my heart go free


Verse
One day I hope you will be mine
The sun won’t set just continue to shine
There is no one else there is no line
Give me a loving sign


Bridge
You have beauty on the inside and out
The most beautiful girl in the world no doubt
But you don’t know it at all


Verse
The attraction she gets from other guys
I may be a sinner but I’ll tell her no lies
Every time she smiles my heart simply flies
She is my ultimate prize

The Loneliest Man

The quiet thoughts no one hears

Long nights remembering my worst fears

Waiting silently for the sun to rise

Telling more people more happy lies

 

The darkness appears the thoughts set in

No-one to share the false clown grin

Another face for another crowd

Inner loneliness screaming out loud

 

No-one to listen, the crowd have all gone

A thousand people now I stand just one

Like a pebble stranded on a clear white beach

It seems this pebble is silently out of reach

 

The night awaits the loneliness begins

Another night were loneliness wins

Loneliness a drug I would love to ban

Alone writing the loneliest man