Last Goodbyes He goes away today With a smile on his face And a confident walk; A spring in his step. Dressed in army fatigues, Proud of who he is, Off to serve the people For queen and country. To the desert sun, I watch As I wave him off. I wish I could see him fly The whole way there. As he kisses my cheek And leaves my presence, I wish he was a child again So I could forbid him to go. But this is his choice, His #life and his servitude. This is the last tour now, And so I let him go.

Anon It's funny, you know Because we're human We're all the same inside Same species Same model, if you will And yet we're all different And so we fight And we disagree And then comes the hatred Anonymous letters Under false names And feelings hurt At the end of the line That you don't even see So why bother When you get no reaction? Is it your beliefs? Or are you, as I believe, Just looking for fun In the misery of others? Things like this Destroy people's lives. Think before you hate.

An Alternative Fairytale Once upon a time there was a girl who lived in an ivory tower. She wasn't clever, or important, or a good person, but she thought she was, and that was why she was there. She was locked in and no one visited her. She soon died of thirst. And the kingdom lives happily ever after without her, just going to show that in the grand scheme of things none of us really matter.

When I Was Made You made me Fabricated me slowly From the scraps on the floor Through your care Your infinite attention And your problematic mind I became one being One person Through you I became me You shaped me like clay Moulded by your hands Pushed into my perfect shape And finally you stopped The spinning of the wheel And let me free To fly in the world You sewed me up From patches and thread The needle of your wise eye Pulling through And fixing all my pieces together Linking my realities. You made me who I am And for that I am eternally grateful.

Guardian The sun shone down on me As I crossed the street And I saw a stranger wave to me And I smiled and carried on with my day. The clouds glowered down on me As I bought coffee And a stranger served me and grinned And I paid him and carried on with my day. The rain poured down on me As I stuck my head out the open window And a stranger said hello to me And I said hello and carried on with my day. Thunder shot down on me As I waited for my bus home And a stranger was sitting there And I sat by him and carried on with my day. Snow drifted down on me As I wandered across the road And the stranger saw me And pushed me to safety from the speeding car. Hail dropped down on me But I didn't much care Because the stranger was sitting here And he told me I was always safe with him.