When Souls Depart

A woman wands bubbles

Down the Spring Garden Road

An old man plays accordion

With a face like a toad

The Autumn air is warm

For this time of year

As I wander the streets

Of my Halifax dear

A stroll through faded blossoms

That in the Public Garden grow

My thoughts, as sit

At Robbie Burns’ toe,

Are wrapping my noggin

In nostalgia and grief

As I contemplate time,

That fucking old thief

My childhood spent

In this city so fair

My mother lies dying now

Hearts sunk in despair

Her’s can’t keep going

Mine, no more can take

The sun makes of pyre

Sat alone for her wake

The roads which I’ve rambled

And places I’ve seen

Will never rival

This place where I was weened

The flag shows the lion

That resides in my heart

And though I know I must leave soon

Like a soul must depart

Farewell to Nova Scotia

My lamenting refrain

As I know I may not

See this fair land again

Its ocean and valleys

And glacial till

Its water washed beaches

And Atlantic air chill

I am an orphan now,

With no true place my home

But I carry this place

Wherever I roam

Through fields of Heaven

And the hot winds of hell

I shall never forget this city

That I love so well

GJM

The last lonely leaf 

Upon the tree with branches broke, cracked and knarled 

Shifts from green to red with yellow flashes

For the tegument of earth she’s bound

To mix again with her native soil

Where my seed grew so well

Through winter’s barrens brash, spring’s fragrant renewal,

And summer’s burning hell

The Autumn is the time of year

When the reaper is at his height

Shaving down the tawny Fields

With sharp and mighty scythe 

My branches own, with rough bark grey and brown

Is too nearing its trembling Fall

Though my seed is sewed and she so beautifully grows

I too shall meet the ground

But from rot in decay and tears of dismay,

Is born birth and life

My my branches yield and never break

Despite our worldly strife

And those who rest and rejoin the soul give birth once again

And it is there that our solace bares

It’s light and misty glow

May they all sleep tight when the curtain of night

Shades our memories and all we know,

Mother mo chroí may your soul be free

And stand with your roots, beneath dwindling tree.

Pretended

Who thought the act of being kind

Would tear my heart asunder

Tumultuous turns, whirl in my mind

Pouring sweat, heart beat like thunder

You can see it in my eyes with each one of your lies

And no matter how I try, my face holds no disguise 

I do for you things that no one else

Would even care to ponder

I have given it my all, I gave my self

You left me drained, you left me somber

I know it now, I know my place, and it's never where I thought I'd be

You can't even read my face because  you never cared for me

My world seems so empty now

And I feel dead inside me

I did all that I knew how

You broke my wing, I can't be free

Karma is a thing that I dismiss, and there is no ass I'll kiss

You don't even say hello, but I just can't let you go

With my mind you'd always screw, but that's what you'd always do

Cos' our world it was pretended

Yes, our world it was pretended 

I was just a character in a book that you never gave a look

You just left me sat there on your shelf

And slipped away with so much stealth

Like the player in a role, and I'm left left broke but you left whole 

I sat there high and dry, where a tear had stung my eye

Can't believe none of it was real, and can't control how I feel

Because our world it was pretended 

(No, I know I don't want to know that)

What we had was just pretended 

(No, I know I don't want to know that)

 Our world was just pretended

(My heart and mind were blind to the stage)

Cos our world it was pretended

( now I'm here all alone)

Because our world it was pretended 

Smitten Online

I've savoured her words upon the screen,

And her image in photos, only seen

I know that nothing in this life is sure

But a connection I sense in her green eyed lure

Imagining of what could be,

Should I love her and she, love me

To feel the warmth of her silky flesh 

And the heat when passions mesh

Gould her an mine heart be true

And begin a a life at mid-life anew

Time will tell of what will be

If she is the one to set my love free

Aspire, do I, at this thought

Of her wanting and passions brought

The flame fanned fierce of sweet desire

And dance with me in embraces fire