What is it that I see each day
My life slowly slipping away
Walking along the pathways of life so alone
A lost soul without a home

Feeling pain that is like a knife
Through my heart it goes, taking my life
Draining me by drawing blood
As if to prove that I am not made of wood

What am I going to do?
To stop me feeling so sad and blue
Should I become selfish, unfeeling and cold
Or should I keep my feelings like a secret, never to be told.

Take all the pain that life throws at me
Never ever letting anybody see
Just how much I hate feeling this way
Pretending just to live for today.

Worrying in secret about tomorrow
Feeling all this pain and sorrow
Wanting desperately to break free
Of the burdens that seem to be surrounding me.

Love to fly

I wish I could fly, like a bird
And have the freedom of the sky
To glide past clouds without a care in the world
Oh! How I would love to fly

I would fly higher
Past clouds through to blue skies
No daily hassles or burdens and woes
No questions like who, what or why's

It must be wonderful to be able to fly
Soaring through skies so blue
It must be wonderful to be able to find
A love that is honest and true.

BUT MOST OF ALL LOVE

You embraced the world in your motherly arms
you captured our hearts with your smile.
Now that you are gone we miss your warm compassionate nature
The sparkle in your eyes but most of all your love.

The memory of you with your arms open wide
as you rush towards your sons to hug them close
with a look of sheer love and joy on your face
will remain in our hearts forever.

You always shone like the brightest star in the sky
Wherever you went in all the countries you visited
all you had to do was smile and touch
for people to feel better about life and fill them with hope.

With that mischievous sparkle in your eyes
you bought light into many lives that were filled with darkness
and hope into a world that can be sometimes cruel
But most of all our hearts were filled with your love.

You may have left us to become Gods special Angel
your legacy will live on though
through the young Prince's you gave to us
But most of all your love.

JUSTICE FOR THE 96

It is remembered so clearly, that dreadful day.

Listening to the radio, as the commentator told.

Of the awful scenes he was witnessing

At a football stadium called Hillsborough.

The pain is as strong now as it has always been.

Of hearing how 96 fellow Scousers were dying, lying on the pitch.

As their family and friends pleaded for help for their loved ones.

And how the gutter press tried to kick us while we were down.

Years later and we have yet to see justice done.

The families of those who lost their lives

They are still fighting to finally discover the truth.

Who WAS in the wrong?, is the question yet to be answered.

Each time “you’ll never walk alone” is sung.

A tidal wave of emotion engulfs a city.

That just wants to see Justice for the 96.

A city that will not rest until the truth is finally known.

A city who, as the music plays, remember a spring day.

When they saw or heard in horror

As 96 Liverpool Supporters lost their lives

In a tragedy that will remain in our hearts and minds forever.

My Liverpool

Oh how my heart aches as I walk away

Leaving behind all that I cherish

My home, My heart, My heaven on earth

Where I know I will always belong.

Always, will I long for

Until the day I die

The sight of the Liverbirds

Standing there so proud.

Oh! Lord! Please guide me

Through the lonely days

With the hope that one day I will return

To the place I love, my home, My Liverpool.

WONDERFUL MOMENTS

The sun shines brightly in a sky so blue

Whilst cotton wool clouds float leisurely by

And the children splashing in the paddling pool

Stop their fun to watch a butterfly

All is quiet for a moment

Until the butterfly has flown away

Then squeals of laughter can be heard again

As the children resume their play

Life is full of wonderful moments

Forgotten when times are bad

Little things like afternoons in the sun

And all the fun the children had

Roller Coaster.

It will not stop taking me for the ride of my life

taking me up one minute then down the next.

Going around and around, flinging me from one side to the other.

Then dangling me upside down, twisting and turning at full speed.

So thrilling yet also terrifying.

The feeling of dread is over ruled by excitement.

It’s like being on top of the world

as I look down at the scenery all around me.

Before plunging down, down into the depths of mixed emotions.

Fear, excitement, enjoyment to stomach churning dislike.

It rolls on and on until I just want it to stop.

I’m feeling queasy as it slows down before drawing to a halt.

Getting off and all I can think about is going on it again?

Saying Goodbye

It’s hard for me to say Goodbye

There’s a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye.

I’m hurting all over, for I don’t want to let go

But I have no choice, of this I know.

Just make me one promise, that’s all I ask of you

Please never forget us and all that we do.

The love that we have, to you, freely we give

With the promise always to be there for you, for as long as we live.

Never forget that’s all that I plead

For inside my heart, I’m beginning to bleed.

This making a new life for yourselves abroad

Is piercing my heart, like a Samurai’s Sword.

The tears have started, to the ground they fall

As I watch you walking down the hall.

Out through the door and out of our lives

The cut’s getting deeper, from those twisting knives.

Cutting me to bits and tearing my world apart

Until all that is left is one sad, broken heart.

Crying on the inside but not letting it show

So you won’t know how much it’s hurting me seeing you go.

Love

Wonderful, Powerful Emotion

Ruler of hearts and loser of heads

Aim your arrow in my direction

Let me feel your powerful surge

Enter thought my body

Bringing a warmth

Where I once felt cold

Bringing the strength

For me to be bold

Bringing a fullness

To a place

That was once empty and barren

Bringing True love

At last to me.

The Oasis In Our Back Yard

On a hot sunny day like today

The children love to play

In the oasis in our back yard

There are no trees or bushes to block the view

So I can sit and watch what they do

In the oasis in our back yard

Splashing about, having fun

Cooling themselves down in the hot, hot sun

In The Oasis In Our Back Yard

Covered with water resistant sun block cream

To stop the burning of the strongest sunbeam

In The Oasis In Our Back Yard

As I sit and watch their play

I remember there was once another day

In The Oasis In Our Back Yard

With a child splashing with her mates happily

The difference being that the child was me

In The Oasis In Our Back Yard

The years have flown by so fast

Tomorrow, this day will be the past

In The Oasis In Our Back Yard

The paddling pool will once again be put away

Until another beautiful sunny hot day

To become the oasis in our back yard.

Annoyingly Political.

Bureaucratic idiots

In a world full of fools

Making life harder

For us poor individuals.

Forms to fill in

For that and for this

A pain in the arse

That we’re supposed to kiss.

So much paperwork to do

It gets me so wound up and mad

With broken governmental promises

You get the feeling you’ve been had.

They say it’s a change for the better

Can we really believe it’s true?

You always hope for it to be so

But you’re a fool if you do.

Dedication To A Friend

Written in memory of a friend of mine who died in 1990, Barbara Hepworth

You went away so suddenly

I couldn’t help but cry

but now I know that you are safe

I can heave a relieving sigh.

It hurts to know you died alone

I keep asking myself “Why?”

Now as I come to terms with my grief

I just want to say goodbye.

You were such a special friend

The kind that’s rare and true

My grief will ease as time goes by

But I know I will always miss you.