Mary Champion Poems

Harried by the horrid clamour of battle,
hardly time to think of the fear -
yet filled with it-
they press forward.
...

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
...

1984
I wanna be a bitch,
a superstar type bitch,
a grade-A, neat sulphuric acid, pure shit-stirring bitch.
...

When you've lost the best,
the rest
could vaporise
before your eyes,
...

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
...

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.
...

I understand the unity
of all I know.
I know all the diversity;
the ways to go.
...

(or to understand is to wish you'd never bothered)

I studied all the time to understand
the reasons why our lives get out of hand,
...

1987

There is nothing new under the sun,
but a fresh light falls on it everyday.
...

Babe, I know the things that you have been,
I can guess the bad times that you've seen,
but I know it's hard to be alone
and you've been dragged through Hell to get back home.
...