Gabriel SimpsonLaw Poems

Only dogs are out on the streets
See there’s no-one else here but me
All the bars are closed, so I’ll follow my nose
To the hotel I’m still calling home
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Foresworn am I to ever view your love once swift declared to me
For false - it was and so shall be my abjuration now of thee
In consequence of what prevailed (and all that’s left of no avail)
My love for you will surely pale - all value and advantage fail
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As morning lays her hands upon my sill
Ethereal threads of night I cling to still
And holding as they whisper from my mind
The revenant trace of you they leave behind
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Should a veil of fear and suffering cause me at the end
To forget the love and kindness of you all
If I say such and such and this or that and it offend
Forgive this feeble body at its fall
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At timbers edge where it curtains a hill
In the loamy shadows there something lay still
The tiny body of a sparrowhawk
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Self medication needs dedication
Only the brave can never be saved
From self infliction of their addiction
To their own choices they are enslaved
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I wish you’d seen the man in me
And not the one you hoped I’d be
The love that I’d have freely given
Before this heart was sorely riven
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Fix ever thine eyes on the far and dark horizon
Look not to the verges of thy path for there lays only diversion
Step lightly, and glad be thine heart that your path is now before thee
Fear nought, for the shield you bear is my love
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The Earth’s curve is revealed to me
As asphalt disappears
Beneath my boots and wheels I see
The rushing of the years
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When vigorous the north wind blows across the steppe as far as Kent
Victorious his power shows in falling tiles and trees full bent
Then cold I wander to the line where saxon viewed the sea at will
And over marshy distance gaze toward red citadel on hill
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