Well my poem didn't work. She ditched me yesterday by text message. Nice.

not good

Indeed not. Luckily I have a date for tonight.

And I've learned not to write poetry for women until you're basically living with them.

"The God Complex"

Rising from the ashes of tomorrows dreams
I stand there unbroken and unbowed
Killing time ain’t as easy as it seems
For the righteous and the proud

Dedication ain’t my inspiration
I don’t care what you all do
I ain’t gonna run from your fascination
Your love for me must be true

Come out of your holes like a pack of rats
I will hunt you down one by one
Look into my eyes as you squirm on your backs
And know your time is almost done

You try to walk in my shoes but honey you just ain’t me
Don’t try and figure me out
You gotta go blind before you can truly see
You gotta be mute, babe, before you can shout

So as I rise to the heavens and beyond
Don’t spare a thought for anyone but yourself
You’re just an oversized fish in an oversized pond
You know it can’t be good for your health

The riddle of your life is the tangle of your dreams
No one can solve it but the broken man within
The play is unwritten yet you star in all the scenes
Your pretension is as obvious as the sum of all your sins

You look at me and your eyes show me derision
I look right back seeing no heart, but a hole
It’s too late for you; I see you’ve made your decision
It’s the end of your time, my friend; you have lost your soul

no wonder she dumped you?;) jokes aside, not bad

Hell of a compliment right there...

ETERNITY
Kingdoms can rise, and castles can fall
The stars can end, and time can go by
Nothing will matter, 'cause while I have you
Eternity will go by in the blink of an eye

A very, very short one I wrote a while ago that I've always liked :D

I wish you would open your eyes and tell me what you find
It ain't no secret that all along you've been quite blind
Seeing what you want to see, for me it's been a mission
To turn your head, to make you smile and uncloud your vision

What you've always wanted has been waiting for you right here
In the twilight and the gloom like the apparitions that you fear
Don't shy away from it, what could be the wildest ride
You must fight your instinct to keep from running and trying to hide

Deep inside, you know that it's always been you and me
Playing out like the bittersweet sound of a wicked symphony
Taking these unfettered steps in a dance down in the dark
You cling to me so tight and with your teeth you leave your mark

Yet all of this is in my mind, it's too hard to make you see
That in the dead of night your soul yearns to come to me
So I leave you now to sleep and dream your twisted life away
And I will live in the shadows of your heart, love, come what may

I am sat here - wasting my time...
Trying to think of a clever rhyme...
What am I doing - I ain't a poet...
Better I go and clean up my toilet...

I put this up on facebook a while ago...It was supposed to be the spoken intro to a song called Always Been you, but it never materialised

When the mystery girl, I slept without,
the only one i've thought about
is standing right there in front of me,
shows me the light and then shows me her dreams
You have to want the things you can never have
and if you really get them would it be so bad?
if everything could fall into place
and we met in another time and better space
would we risk it all?
would it still be there?
Would you want to love
or would we just not care...

(c) 2009

Wrote this in about five minutes earlier this evening but I quite like it. More of a song than a poem.

"Dead And Gone"

My hands slipped away from ‘round your neck and I realised what I’d done
It all went wrong so quick, it did, I thought we were havin’ fun
And I looked into your eyes and they stared straight back at me
Took me a while to realise but I’d finally set you free


You made me do it with every single swear word you ever threw
You picked me up and you put me down like every man you ever knew
So I don’t blame myself when I look back now and recall your cold blue skin
You should never have taken all my stuff and thrown it in the bin


But you were killin’ me inside
From myself I’d tried to hide
Yeah you were killin’ me inside
But it was one hell of a ride


You were the one thing that I wish right now I’d never found
The sweetest moment was the day they put you in the ground
But in a way I’m gonna miss you, you always were about
And I’ll miss the way I pissed you off n’ you felt the need to shout


But you were killin’ me inside
From myself I’d tried to hide
Yeah you were killin’ me inside
But it was one hell of a ride


So I look back now and smile to myself ‘cos I know I’ve no regrets
Ain’t gonna gamble no more with my life, ain’t gonna make no more bets
So rest my sweet, enjoy the peace as you slumber six feet under
And look back at how you treated me and to yourself you may just wonder


Why you were killin’ me inside
Why from myself I tried to hide
Yeah why you were killin’ me inside
And why you were finally denied

(c) 2010

Lookin' Back At The Future

We were always drivin’ down that same old dusty street
It was the middle of the summer but we weren’t sweatin’ from the heat
The look in your eyes and the taste of your lips
Your hair upon my shoulder and my hand upon your hip

Those were the days my dear, when everything felt so good
Always makin’ love in the back seat, or maybe on the hood
Where have all those days gone, what happened to it all?
Guess they’re lost in the sands of time now we’re no longer standing tall

We just got older and I got fatter, our dreams all but forgotten
The taste of life we loved so much ain’t fresh no more, it’s rotten
I don’t catch your eye no more and your hair no longer shines
I still say I love you, but you no longer say you’re mine

So hop on in the front seat babe, let’s turn our life around
Turn the radio up, wind the windows down and get lost in the sound
Let’s drive all night to God knows where and race people off the lights
Let’s find a nice secluded spot and put a ladder in your tights

Love gets old, I know that’s true but maybe it’s like wine
Maybe it’ll get better with age instead of screwing with our minds
So put those slippers away my dear and slip into something revealing
And I’ll do my best to remind you that sex was once appealing

apart from the use of fatter, i think it sounds good.

The Dance Of The Crow And The Frog

The crow crowed to see such fun
A glint in his eye that may have been the sun
He laughed in derision at the frog at his feet
“You’re nought but bones and thin stringy meat!”


The frog looked up to regard the crow with large bulbous eyes
“That’s as maybe but I can swim as well as you can fly”
The crow cackled madly thinking this frog such a fool
The frog blinked once and said “I challenge you to a duel”


The crow cocked his head and narrowed his beady eyes
“You can’t hope to swim as fast as this crow can fly!”
The frog stood his ground and gave the crow a crafty glance
“I don’t mean to have a race; I mean to beat you at dance!”


The crow rolled around all laughter and guffaws
As the frog cleared the ground for a makeshift dancefloor
“What a silly little contest I shall beat you so simply!”
The frog just said nothing, looking at his feet so green and pimply


“A-one, and a-two...” and off danced the frog
Skipping majestically through leaves and over a log
The crow watched astonished at the pivots and turns
As the graceful little frog pirouetted amongst the ferns


“I can do that,” said the crow, “Now you just watch”
As he fluffed out his feathers and skipped like hopscotch
The frog came to a standstill and looked at the crow
“You’re not really so good, I thought you should know”


The crow got angry and danced all the faster
Leaving the ground as he got all in a lather
“See how high I can jump, I’m better than you!”
As his wings bore him aloft with a flutter or two


Frog shook his head “No that’s not it at all!”
“You’ve got to go higher, over that garden wall!”
And crow jumped with a flap clearing the stones
Tucking his wings in he fell suddenly with a breaking of bones


“You tricked me!” he moaned, as he lay in a heap
“The wall was too high and the fall was too steep!”
Frog hopped down beside him, the distance no bother
“Well you should think twice before you’re rude to another”


And so at last we come to the moral of our tale
Be kind to one another and you can’t ever fail
Celebrate your differences and encourage others to try
Because it doesn’t really matter if you swim or if you fly

(c) Copyright James Batty 2011