
Keeping warm and safe
I could carpet the whole earth –
I will suit myself
Copyright Francis 2022

Keeping warm and safe
I could carpet the whole earth –
I will suit myself
Copyright Francis 2022

Slowly the ocean,
the flames too – they invite me
to immerse my self
Copyright Francis 2022

Alone in nature
Communion with the self
No time nor distance
Copyright Francis 2022

so I’m not worthy
they say my world’s come, and gone
while I breath – it’s mine
Copyright Francis 2022

The blank page
has the coldest stare,
no words can describe
this darkness inside,
yearning for amnesia.
Happiness, the distant land
where other people live;
I’m no denizen there,
my passport withdrawn
when you rejected me —
subjecting me —
to the pain of my self
Copyright Francis Barker 2020