Mary Champion

Oh Lancelot, have you betrayed
the sacred promise that you made?
to seek the Truth and guard it well
till Time has made it ripe to tell.
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If you keep swallowing your pride and disappointment,
you will find there isn't any ointment
strong enough
to take away the pain.
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Three kinds of goodbye
As she leaves like a fading dream.
Nobody understands why,
When love's not quite what it seemed.
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THE MUSE SPEAKS

The inanity of Humanity
never ceases to amaze.
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I'll take you in my arms, my love.
I'll take you to my heart.
I'll take you in a million ways -
we've been too long apart.
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Hopes and fears and feelings -
currents of my soul.
Hopes and fears and feelings
and dreams that made me whole.
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REGENERATION
24/6/2009.

From the Somme
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Ranged along the skyline,
like alien Gods descended to Earth,
the stately blades turn with majestic grace-
exuding a potent air.
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You can't walk away from something that's part of you
and you cannot deny what you know is true.
You can turn your back,
but you can't detach
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You're a catalyst, Cat;
you walked into my life,
screwed the whole thing up,
caused me all of this strife
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Maybe they were born to be together
and they don't feel complete when they're apart.
Maybe they are perfect for each other.
Who can tell the secrets of the heart?
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[ A chaotic poem]

The Market is Free -
untrammelled, untamed.
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One thing you can say for a hero -
one thing unfailingly true:
he rose to the occasion -
for that's what heroes do.
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Harried by the horrid clamour of battle,
hardly time to think of the fear -
yet filled with it-
they press forward.
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It's Spring and the sky's sprung a leak.
On and off, it's been raining all week.
But the warm April showers
have sprung the spring flowers
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1984
I wanna be a bitch,
a superstar type bitch,
a grade-A, neat sulphuric acid, pure shit-stirring bitch.
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When you've lost the best,
the rest
could vaporise
before your eyes,
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The prophets always promised that God would save the world
and we've been waiting for a long time, now,
waiting for a guy
to come down from the sky
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I never loved you and that's why I liked you so much.
I never craved your approval or burned for your touch.
You never drained me, demanding what I cannot give.
I could enjoy you and share you and still want to live.
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I understand the unity
of all I know.
I know all the diversity;
the ways to go.
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