Thursday, April 30, 2009

Perfection...

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She is... quite simply... perfection at its finest.

She was broken

She was broken
But didn't see it at all
Her insides strong
Fighting on
Outsides weak
Her future looking dreary and meek
Bones brittle and small
Dark circles looping the holes
Where her eyes used to sit
Up high on her face
Where they once sparkled and shone
Bringing her being to life
Over time the dark grew and grew
Along with the voices inside her head
Enveloping all that she knew
Taking her flesh as its very own
Creating a sea of black
In an ocean which the light once made clear
Robbing her soul of all it could be
It rained in her eyes
Even on the days there was sun
And the people around her expected
To see this storm on her face
For all her days to come
But she remained in her way strong
Built her brick walls up high
Tall enough to shield her pain
From nosy and peering eyes
She hid herself from life so well
That when faced with a mirror
Not even she recognised
The hideous beast
Which she, herself had created
Haggard and hallow
Was the picture of her empty shell
Cradling inside her lonely and cold heart
Which she'd trapped and left to die
Inside her abused and mutilated body

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Rainy Memories...

It's raining... and it's coming down pretty heavily. I love that sound. Rain heavy on a tin roof. It reminds me of my parents house and a cuddly comforting feeling warms my heart as I think of those misty mountain days I grew up wishing for. Nothing is quite like this sound... nor the image I've built in my mind to accompany its delivery.
Those were the days I felt comfort in a way I could always count on. Warmth regardless of the temperature outside. So many good things coexist in my mind with those days.
When I was a child, a day like this may have occured during school hours. We all would have eaten our lunch in our classrooms rather than outside and the rooms would always appear more brightly lit than usual due to the intense darkness created by the commanding clouds. I loved eating lunch in the class room. I felt close to everyone in these times. A whole class sitting within four built up walls... and when our day would come to an end, Mum would be there waiting for me and my brother; ready to take us home.
Seeing my Mum's face was always a comfort in itself, not to mention how comforting her scent was. She'd always have the biggest grin on her face and give us a big kiss and cuddle. Usually on these days, she'd take us to the Kurrajong Bakery and buy us something warm like meat pies or spinach quiches. We'd take them home and eat them while she got ready to teach. Often she'd have already lit the old-school oven fire and as soon as we set foot inside the door, we would feel the toasty warm temperature contrast with the brutal chill of the outside air. I remember the these days... Mum would call them "Misty Mountain" days... and that's still how I remember them today. Best days of my life.
If we had a day like this on the weekend, usually some of our friends would come around and we'd make indoor cubby houses, constructed by upside down couches. We'd even put the tiny TV in there and watch cartoons. Mum would cut us up celery and feed it to us with our favourite french onion dip. If I close my eyes, I can still picture it as if it had happened yesterday. Sometimes though, when we were feeling really adventurous, we'd go walking in the rain. My friends and I would venture into the muddy lanes and tracks that were by then filled with water, gushing rapidly towards us with nowhere else to go. At times there would be so much rain and water that our driveway would flood completely and our lane would form puddles and streams making it virtually impossible to drive down. My friends and I would pick the wet leaves and flowers off the plants and trees... hoping to pick enough for our various arts and crafts pojects we had constantly in the works. When we'd come inside, sometimes mum would have made her vegie soup... hearty and hot... just the way it should be! We'd dip buttered bread cut into two triangles in it and giggle while we drew and made plans for our crafty inventions.
As we got older though, which was bound to happen... these days began to represent different things.
An old friend and I used to cuddle in this weather and not come out of my room for days at a time. I'm pretty sure I used to devour baked potato during this time in my life. Topped with plenty of salt and sour cream. I can't even remember the last time I had sour cream! He loved me anyway though... despite my weird fetish for sour cream! There were a lot of rainy days I remember him being with me... these days were priceless.
Then there was a boy... who I used to msg endlessly when it rained. Back and forth, back and forth into the early hours of the morning. We'd talk about the sound of the rain on the roof, and I think all we ever wanted to do was dance under its soothing droplets until we were soaked all the way through. I used to tell him to kiss the rain... lyrics from a song that I thought summed us up nicely. It went something like "kiss the rain whenever you need me, kiss the rain whenever I'm gone too long, if your lips feel hungry and thirsty, kiss the rain and wait for the dawn. Keep in mind, we're under the same sky and the night is as empty for me as for you, if you feel you can't wait til morning, kiss the rain"... and whenever it rains, it's hard for me not to think of him and kissing the rain in our memory.
Then I had a boyfriend who came to represent to me what this weather means. Even though he was a sunshine boy all the way and to be honest, I think I spent more time at the beach during the time him and I dated than I had my entire life. We were definitely beach kids together... rocking our beach/street branded clothing. Trekking to Manly Beach, the old train-and-ferry style way in an attempt to show off our dedication to the sun and our love for all things beach. It's funny though because the rainy days somehow ended us being what made us. There was no excuse to get out of bed when it rained. No point and everyone knew it. So no one questioned it. If we were up to it though, we'd venture out come night time for a dinner and movie combo C/O the good old Regent Twin Cinemas... ooooh those were the days. Raining on the tin roof is definitely a sound I remember from that time in my life.
I guess rain on a roof somehow can always easily be associated with love and bed and all things couple-related. Aswell as with hot chocolates; where melty marshmellows are bathing in a sea of milky goodness.
The rain makes me think of a time when there was a flood. We wanted it to flood. We loved the rain and the dance it formed across the sky. The pellets heavy on the front screen of the car, as we drove through feilds of heavy green mush and puddles of deep water. These few days in the flood were everything I loved about us. The simplicity and perfection of a look and a touch. The perfection of the rain and all it represented. A lifetime of nights and days spent in bed beneath warm sheets, skin on skin and bodies held close. When I hear a rain like tonight it reminds me of those times.... as perfect and as clear as they were and should have been, always held close and dear in my heart. Always the rainy story of us.
I've lived overseas in the rain, I've lived here at home in the rain and where ever I go, alone or not, these moments in time are by far my favourite. I hold on to the images and memories of all the times the rain and I have shared, and I smile. When I think back over the buckets of rain I could have captured during the time I have lived... the misty mountain backdrop is always there, regardless of the memory... and my love for the rain and the times spent in its company is endless.....

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Persuasion

You are incredibly persuasive
When you want to be
Which just so happens
To be pretty much all the time
With your eyes
You know how to command a room
As if it were a little secret
You'd kept with you and yourself
Secretly plotted away
Quietly planning your every move
Next port of call
Docking station unveiled
A commander ready to instruct
Be obeyed by your following team
Tall, in control and empty
Of all your own fears
Everybody knows
You're incapable to feel
And release the possibilities
Of a lifetime of tears
Better to live life like this
Be made never to open up
Form a comforting drama
A play of your very own
Written and already know
The lines; the essence of yourself
You've acted them out aloud
A thousand times before
In times gone by and through
On a stage before them all
Reciting the words in mass
And now I see why it is so simple
To give into a person like you
When you parade yourself to those
Who do not know
What it means to be true
Create your safe haven
Invite them all to go
Sit with them awhile
Warp them to think the way you do
Though The question I still hold
In the palm of my tiny hand
Is if your nest is quite as safe
As safe as you'd intended;
And planned?

Friday, April 10, 2009

All this nothing

I do not care
Nor do I have any interest
I can not retain a single sound
The becoming of too many words
Forming useless sentences
Unable to be transformed
Into any real use of my own
Or knowledge worthwhile
Locking into this head
Imagine what it is to be trapped
In the cage we call our mind
The bars on such cells
Seem to be standing far too wide
Enabling me and these god awful words
To pass right through its metal frame
To glide and break out;
Learn to roam free
Into the minds of those
Desperate with hunger for it's sense
Thirsty for the knowledge it represents
Their desire exceeding
All that of a natural form
Leaving them full
And fat with such a grasp
Wisdom creating the illusion
Of a brain left healthy and wise
A healthy head full of nothing
This nothing; nothing but lies

The world in its glory

And when the world
Has come to its end
When it has done all
It was intended to do
We can sit back
And take some time
To recall it all;
All we've been through
Write about it
For all the days to come
In all its glory
And what is still yet to be

Tired Eyes

Tired eyes
Oh sleepy one
Come to bed
Rest your tired head
Lay yourself
Up here on my chest
Cuddle in
Nice and tight
Stroke my hair
I'll hold you close
And stare into your eyes
Until both eyes fall shut

Shadows Fall

The shadows fall
Between you and I
Creating a rift
Still on the ground
Heavy and black

Saturday, April 4, 2009

What I Think...

I think you fell in love with me and I think it was unexpected
I think I fell in love with you and that was unexpected too
I think you realised that perhaps I was the girl for you
I think it was nice until it went wrong
I think that I hurt you and you can blame me for that
I think you loved spending all your time with me
I think we were head over heels in love
I think I thought I would never be enough
I think that's why I mucked it all up
I think our eyes and bodies said it all
I think more than our words ever could
I think I was weak
I think you were strong
I think I tried to tell you how much I adored you
I think my words fell on deaf ears though
I think you could have been happy waking up to me everyday
I think the damage had been done and too late to take back
I think you got scared that things would never change for us
I think that made me mad
I think when I got mad, it made you even madder
I think you're still angry with me
I think maybe I'm angry with myself
I think I blame myself
I think if I had known myself better we wouldn't be where we are now
I think I am a lover and always have been
I think I live purely to love
I think to love can cause pain
I think a deep love is also rare to find
I think it's something that shouldn't be so easily discarded
I think that I love you
I think that you love me too
I think I can't convince you now though and
I think you'll say I'm wrong
I think you think I'm always wrong
I think love isn't meant to be easy
I think it can be incredible if you let it
I think that I still love you
Though, I think that you know that too.

Back To Bones

I feel it coming up my spine
It has started again, I have crossed that line
That line I have been trying so hard not to cross
But it is all that is left when all else is lost
It's a form of control, I know that now
I can't keep anything I put in down
It's the only way I know how to cope
When there is no reason left for me to hope
Heart is shattered, torn to bits
Only one person knows how that puzzle fits
Back together to make me once more whole
But that person knows, that they own the control
It is not a fault of anyone that this is me
It is just the way my mind chose for me to be
Just a little girl hoping and waiting for love
To have, to give to hold high above
Put you on a pedestal, my heart says that is where you belong
Push myself down as far as I can go
Under your feet and muddy from the dirt
Laying below, in pain from the hurt
Do you even see it? It appears you do not
Leave me here alone, soon I shall begin to rot
And shrink and die and turn back to bones
Is this what you wanted?
It is only you who can truly know

A not so mathematical equation

Butterflies by the dozen + Fast beating hearts = Me when I am with you

Oh what a night!

Just got home from a night out with some really great people. The kind they portray in our favourite movies. You know, the characters who have known each other since school and somehow managed to keep in touch despite the time, distance and change experienced by each and every single one of them. As crazy as it sounds, and though it is only a few who ultimately deserve the mention, a night out such as tonight, filled with faces who knew me once puts me on the greatest of great highs... and yes - I had a fantastic time over-thinking every detail on the walk home. ;)

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Picture Perfect Love

I remember a time long ago when we looked out onto a city in the same way as we are in this moment right here . All those years ago, I remember waiting in a very long line, to go up a very high tower, in a very cool city which we would only a few years later end up calling our home. I remember this day all those years ago as clearly as I remember this recent trip from only a few months ago.
I remember you were busy telling me tales of the war and why it is that everywhere I seemed to look there were buildings which were either broken down or in a state of mid repair. I remember how passionate you were about it all; how eager you were to share your knowledge with me. You're still as excited these days when you tell me a story. When you hold a particular expertise on a topic you believe I may benefit from hearing. It's so incredibly cute and adorable, that look in your eyes right before a tale of yours begins and despite all my efforts, usually we never quite make it to the end. My lack of concentration for this is solely to blame. I may still not have entirely mastered this concentration skill, however I think I'm getting better, or at least I should, it's been 5 years!
It's something about this photo though that really gets me. A photo has the power of a thousand words and this photo to me is priceless. Photos are the moments in time which cannot be explained or captured through any other means. They're the seconds in life which are snapped for a reason. To see what it is we may perhaps not see ourselves. If this is how we're seen to the outside world, you and I. In our quiet moments of generally being 'us', then I like the view the rest of the world gets. Five whole years later from that first visit up a tower so mighty and high and I believe we still look exactly as we did way back then. Perhaps only now, even stronger. If you are still standing there and we continue to look like this for the rest of our days, I don't think we could possibly ask for anything more than that. Love doesn't need to be spoken out loud because love fills the moments like these and it's eternal presence is always felt, even when all else remains still. When I look at this four sided box which contains a moment of our life, it's clear the strong love that exists. This is exactly what I was put here to feel and be a part of... the quiet but almighty picture perfect love. x

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

blacken my heart

I don't know what just changed, but something suddenly did. Inside of me. Deep down beneath it all. It feels as though I just let go... of everything I have clung to for such a long time.
It's strange when you realise a person isn't who you had thought... or hoped. Even more difficult to encounter when this person is and has been your everything for longer than you care to remember. The one who has been your reason to feel, who has been your sole purpose for existance, giving you the reason to keep on breathing. Time is carried along, the harm of which is shrugged off with the hopes of tomorrow being a better day. This better day never seems to be tomorrow, nor the day after and before you know it, the weeks are rolling into months which are creating the years... the years of time which pass us by almost unnoticed. Time and it's sneaky way of creeping around corners and bending rules to suit itself. Time is playing with our minds and tormenting our ideas while sucking their worth.
It's time who knows how to play us almost as well as we know how to play eachother. I've been played. I know this feeling and I wish it to not be true... but it's there and this time I hope to have the strength to fight the time which ultimately makes the game seem less harsh. It is harsh though. It's a harsh road, it's a tough fight and it's the biggest ride I have to this date ridden.
It's frightening and I'm terribly afraid of what is still yet to come, but at the same time I am angry, in a way I don't often experience. It feels like I've been drenched in gas then set on fire. Flames bursting from within my chest in hot red blasts. Flames of anger... and pain. As reality sets in the anger will fade I am sure, and as my fire sets, the tears and streams of rain will begin to fall down, blackening my fires amber ashes and my heart along with it.
This stings...

Monday, March 30, 2009

Nose to nose eskimos...

Just me and the kitty. Sharing a little moment. I miss my time with him. He used to sleep so soundly in my arms. He gives the best cuddles that I know and we share a definite bond. This is a day I absolutely wont forget. As soon as I saw him, I knew he needed to be mine. It's crazy how people can form such strong bonds with animals isn't it? But he knows... I know he does.
I miss him and his princess-like attitude. Silly kitty... gimme a nose to nose. x

I Love You

The sweetest words the world has on offer. What we all long to hear. Do they ever lose their meaning or will this line forever accompany the incredible butterflies in stomach feeling? I love those words, I love you. I love hearing them. I love saying them... and it appears I love writing them in snow.... and well, lets face it... I love all of you xo

Long Ago

What if i told you that in so many ways you saved my life? Saved me from myself and made me see the light? Or at least a light of some sort. Maybe it was just you. You made me wake up from whatever trance i had been living in for such a long time. Reminded me of what it felt like to live, learn and love once more.
Perhaps that is all that was intended for the "us" that once existed. Maybe it gave us both a chance to learn and discover just one more thing about us as individuals and if that's so, then there cant be a wrong in that. Only the right that it once was. Maybe I needed that time to see where the outcome would lead me. And it lead me right around in one big circle and back to where I was standing in the beginning. It was a very large and at times twisted circle. A long and confusing lap to run... and it left me panting at the end of it all. Sometimes I get the feeling that I didn't really stop running at all... that I've been doing these laps alone for months now. I think it got my heart rate pumping at a wild pace and I think it's about time I put a stop to this incredibly repetitive race that exists between you and I. The heavens know you stopped running long ago. So why is it then that I will be the only person in your life who always wants more out of you? I see it deep within, maybe that's why I expect so much more than you're willing to give. If I gave you nothing else in this lifetime, I would hope that what I did leave you with is the knowledge that looking deeper and admitting it can be hard to do, but if you let yourself, it can be the most amazing feeling in the world. I believe in you. I believe in you for reasons other people wouldn't even know are alive beneath your skin. If nothing else, know that I see you, even if it's that very thing you're hiding from. The realisation that perhaps, just maybe, someone knows you nearly better than you know yourself...

How different it all could be

Think about how different it all could be. Had you put that one foot in front of the other only moments earlier or later than you actually did. The possibilities seem endless.
Where would I be standing today if certain moments had been played out differently?
It's better of course not to spend time dwelling on these ideas as it will almost certainly end up driving you bonkers, however in moments were a lack of clear thought is for whatever reason remaining well hidden, these concepts love to wiggle their way in and set up shop in my mind space.
I miss the people from my past and should any of you stumble upon this strange land where my thoughts are open for discussion within this world, I hope you know exactly how much I miss the times we had.
How much could be different? So much so that I don't really know where to begin.
I'm not feeling well today... I think I am getting the flu and rather than doing a thousand and one of the things I should be occupying my time with, it's off to move my car for the tenth time today (stupid city parking inspectors) and I'll follow that with a cruisy dive into my past thanks to a little thing we call digital photography and the millions of photo CDs created in its honour.
Give me an hour or two and I'm sure you'll all be subjected to the wonders of my past through both words and images.
I like to share. Don't you? Until then... xo

Intimacy

Intimacy at its finest
Giving the illusion
Of first-class silverware
Rich and wise
Honoring its crisp white linen
Creating the perfect backdrop
Bodies tangled in sheets of the same
The taste of all that is sweet
Melting into eternal bliss
Rolling through and beyond
Tastes of another world
Skin on skin
Language of the human form
Truth of all that is real
Expression without words
Requiring no more than a look
Construction of a cocoon
Fabrication of the secret religion inside
Lustful and full of desire
Longing, a thirst for its passion
One body on another
Breath of the same air
Promise between promise
The silent exchange of trust
A time to touch
And fuel the starving remains
Of a hungry form
Giving into cravings
Feeding physical addiction
Greedy for the high
Granting permission
To the animal within
An elevated sensational state
With the eruption of titanic proportions
Flesh upon flesh
Breath heavy like the wind
Intimacy is intensity
Intensity at its best

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Money for your Kiss

A penny for your thoughts
A nickle for those lips
A dime for your kiss