jane solanrobertson

My head is full of 'something',
I wonder if I'll burst-
I get the weidest feeling
That somehow I've been cursed.
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I think I am losing my mind.
My thoughts and feelings
Are crowding
Prodding
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Warrington, the sixties.

When my children cry boredom
I look back and see
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Each dark night
I lie cold and alone
Watching raindrops fall:
Never-ending tears of lovers
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She's beautiful and bubbly
And mixes easily
Her warmth descends on anyone
That her green eyes might see.
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I'm drawn by the spirits
Of long-ago souls
To stairwells that spiral
Through claustraphobic holes
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This silence is eerie
The sickly stench of desecration
Catches in my throat
Your tiny coats still swinging
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Imagine that I am a candle-
Look into my flame:
Although my beauty tempts you
To me it's just a game.
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But I saw you.
Through the chink in the curtain
When I almost didn't look
And the curtain blew
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Know what?
You've changed.
Used to be a laugh
Now it's
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Dinosaurs in the breadbin,
Fish fingers in the loo -
If you had to live in our house,
You'd be crazy too!
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Beneath a room
Where cherubs slept
You lay
Putrescent
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Solid strong and steadfast
But quiet and cold, I wait:
My flowered walls call out to you
To walk in through my gate.
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Rows and rows of boxes
All of them the same
With rooms and rooms of people
Each without a name
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I've had my share of lovers
Passionate or cool
Excitable or brooding
Muscular
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Through the open window
My arms reach out
Past curtains that quiver;
Where the sky is darkening to midnight blue-black.
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Figment Man
Back where you came
Whaddya look like
Don't know your name
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They met again by chance
And in a split second
The years had vanished
A polite handshake doing nothing to cool the fire
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I am sleeping when the tremors begin.
Stronger and stronger they grow
The soft wet walls closing in on me and out again.
I am afraid.
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My numbers are there - I 'm a millionaire!
What shall I do with the money?
One minute in hock, the next in deep shock -
Being wealthy feels ever so funny.
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