This small offering of poems, hastily written in bars and on top of the moors, is probably of more therapeutic use to the author than the reader. I’ll let you decide. You may freely copy the poems and use them in electronic or printed publications, but only with the express condition that the line showing my copyright is always included.
Lonely alone,
Lonely in a crowd,
The feeling of no escape
Cannot be allowed.
The beating music
Beats not for you,
But for other hearts
Whose love is new.
Alone in the street,
Lonely in sleep,
No happiness to come,
No love to keep.
Lonely alone,
Lonely in a crowd,
The feeling of no escape
Cannot be allowed.
©Ray White 2006
[I have never seriously considered suicide, but I can understand those that do.]
I stand atop the dizzying edge,
My life given without pledge.
I watch the hurrying streets below.
Does anyone feel or really know?
If I take that step into the air
Will anyone notice, anyone care?
©Ray White 2006
The bright light of dawn,
Which so filled the room
Soon turns to gathering gloom
And the sweetness of life is gone.
©Ray White 2006
How precious your face
How lovely your eyes
Your beauty more bright
As love’s hope dies.
How precious your hands
How wondrous your gaze
Your beauty more bright
In love’s dying days.
©Ray White 2006
When I was young, hope,
But with age, light fades
A blood-red sun cries
In saddened glades.
©Ray White 2006
Iron wheels spin me far from home,
Never to return.
Now is the time,
My past to burn.
©Ray White 2006
The river, atom to atom,
Is united to the sea.
And so the Universe flows,
Endlessly to me.
©Ray White 2006
A candle flickers in the gloom,
The only hope in a darkening room.
It splutters,
The wax drips,
The clock ticks.
©Ray White 2006
A real man has the power to crush
But tenderly cherishes;
A real man has the strength to kill
But instead begins life;
A real man has the ability to hate
But only gives endless love.
©Ray White 2006
Voices in halls,
Pictures on walls,
I want, he cries
Death, he dies.
©Ray White 2006
Dimensions one to three,
That’s all we can see
As for the other eight,
They may be our fate.
With our vision so small
We cannot see it all.
Trapped in fragility,
We’re set for eternity.
©Ray White 2006