BORN 83


Just to let you know
That at last I broke through
The lines closed up behind me
While soldiers looked for you
And webs of my lifetime
Hung wide into the mists
A dazed spectre waltz’d
'Round my head and open wrists

The wind swept pale and cold
'Long the path I chose to go
Lost between the graveyards
And their undertow
Then wreathed by angel females
In amber'd fields of night
They came and led me through
A vale of candlelight

They changed me into song
Shuttered up with bone
To persuade my damag’d soul
Return to the world alone
On the other side of the river
A word whispered through their tears
Made a hollow of my heart
To womb the human fears

Then I was held down laughing
Before a picture of rebirth
As darkness turned to sunrise
And illuminated Earth
And visions of the elements
Collected on her coasts
Where I was called to sing
Reborn among the ghosts

Now I will always stay here
Focusing my aim
Patiently apprenticed
Knowing every god by name
And I am not on your side
Never was or shall I be
I want you for yourself now

I want you just like me.


///Partly inspired by that ghostly unreal other world feeling
after a sleepless night in the early morning.
Mist over the gardens in Stanmore.
J.M is probably in here too, in spirit, with Blake.///