SJ. Sharkey Poems

Through the winter my heart grew cold
Since feeling it break I didn’t feel at all bold
The clouds hovered over me and blocked any light
The ground rose above me so I couldn’t take flight
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Falling six feet under and no tears that I cry make me feel alright
I don’t have the strength to fight
I’ll bite my tongue so my mouth fills up with blood
‘Cause you said you’d keep that promise but I knew you never would
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That I should have such love in my life and in my heart
And yet i look elsewhere
I am drawn to another, and another, for that which is un-named
Or if it is I dare not write it, as I would unwittingly sign the deed to my illegitimate adultery of mind
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Feelings become confused, blurred
Like the faces of a worn photograph
The separation seems cruel and I long for affection
For an end to torturous second glances
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You thought October's forecast would hold you down forever
But you stomped through fallen leaves in the shape of broken hearts
And the smells of the free blind your love with sparkling sirens
And you touch the hidden landscapes with lies of every colour
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And you are in my thoughts
With my life on the line
Crying
Save me
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Simon and Garfunkel lie in “the sound of silence”.
Mrs Robinson cracks no whip; she left with The Graduate.
They don’t hear it. They don’t feel it. They lie.
I hear it.
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No childhood crone,
Or neighbour known.
Still a familiarity in her
Made me shake and shiver.
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Coffee and gum, type-type-typing
Pen and paper, impatient toe-tapping
Run of the mill, one among many
Leader of the pack, in a pound for a penny
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From a poet's lips lies crept
I, unaware of secrets kept
For my one love I've truly wept;
He knows not the pain of ellipsis,
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