Peeling back the layers of our life

can be treated like kings;even the scroungers of our societyare elevated in stature.Yet our armed forces,those brave men and womenwho go out to battlefieldsare frowned uponand treated with deprivationby those who send them to war.They are the last ones to get help,substandard help at that.Yet child murders have praise heaped on them,given new identitiesall because…

some memories are bad,almost nightmarish in fact.The good ones make you smile,the sad ones make you cry,and the bad ones make you frightened.However, memories are memoriesno matter what they are.They are incidents of your past,some of which you wishnever happened at all.They are the memoriesyou try so hard to forget.Unfortunately, the braincannot distinguish from good,…

from time to time.An abyss where it seemsthere is no way out.Its dark corridorsclose in on ustrying to smother uswith nothingness.It excludes all glimmersof hope in our livesas it drags us downdeeper into its blacknessleaving us just an empty shellwith no vacant thoughts.Just a suffocating emptinessin which to dwell.

Some are harder than others.Some are filled with promise,while others are filled with dread.All will consume mebefore the darkness callsand my head hits the pillowof my comfortable bed.24 September 2008

I think of as my best friends.If ever I have a problemthat was eating away at meI could go to either of themand they would comfort me.I’d do the same for themat anytime night or day.Not only are they my best friends,they are my writing partners in poetrywhen we write underJoJo Bean, Dodgy Dave and…

what you are possessive about.Everything needs a little freedom in their livesto sit by themselves and think.If you deprive them of that,you are driving a wedge between you both.Not everyone is born the same,and if you try to get them to doonly what you want them to do.You might just find one day thatthey are…