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iand youmatter
May 10, 20242 min read
Reflective on a Happy Fathers’ day 21/06/2020
Fathers' day, a trip of more than thirty miles, to meet your son to hand over some clothes for the one you never got to meet and tend...
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iand youmatter
Feb 29, 20242 min read
The Drive back from Queen Victoria Hospital
I wish that life were free from trouble Instead, my mind’s in quite a muddle With budgets running through my head It’s often when it’s...
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iand youmatter
Nov 14, 20231 min read
The Little boy
The little boy from Seria. The tides are low a little boy lays there amongst the waves His once rosy cheeks now grey, buried in sand...
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iand youmatter
Jul 6, 20232 min read
Rehearsing Triggers
Thank god, thank god I am finally here And so are my friends who are sitting near They are sitting in this new school mum said was the...
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iand youmatter
Jul 6, 202310 min read
Sorry you can't be my friend 21/06/2020
Content deleted. Sentences that still ring in my ears when I wake up every morning, the thread that is no more, dread of that cold...
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iand youmatter
Jul 3, 20231 min read
When love isn't blind!
I wish I could hug you and kiss you on the cheeks though I have a feeling that is not allowed! So I will settle for sitting next to you...
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iand youmatter
Jun 18, 20231 min read
When
When? 02/06/2020 I’m a Lightworker, Lightworker and Lightworker am I Everyone says that I am sweat as a pie Along time ago I was...
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iand youmatter
Jun 17, 20231 min read
When walls grow beaks......13.05.2020
Chirp chirp, all around There's a shuffling sound I can no longer rest There’s too much resound Last year was a lucky one So too many...
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iand youmatter
May 13, 20232 min read
Black Rose!
Believe me when I say... I'm back to the shell of a girl you met way back then you left me a note:, when the end is near mutual company...
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iand youmatter
Apr 18, 20231 min read
Schmuck in the office 11/06/2020
Were you the schmuck from the office or was I? you made me laugh, but deep down you'd set off a cry. Entanglement of sorts? Though I wore...
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iand youmatter
Feb 2, 20231 min read
My Smile
The curtain that hides a thousands tears. Behind those glittery eyes A whirpool A pain of an absentee father and a mother Who was never...
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iand youmatter
Jan 1, 20231 min read
NCT buddies
Nov 2018 Families/friends It takes a village to raise a child If that’s the case it’s putting it mild Our little one was made in the City...
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iand youmatter
Dec 14, 20222 min read
When they bring their work home 21/04/2020
How do you think I earn your keep So that you can have all of this stuff? I have to be up there to keep it going Won’t you stop bending...
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iand youmatter
Dec 14, 20221 min read
Coffee beans
Trying to Make sense of a dream I just had Sitting in the passenger seat, mum driving like mad My half open window and men hanging from...
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iand youmatter
Dec 4, 20222 min read
A Battle for friendship 15/05/2020
This thread in my inbox goes back 13 years A request from a friend sits at the top of the list The one I met at uni which we’ve fallen...
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iand youmatter
Nov 29, 20221 min read
Happiness is not at the bottom of his pint
I'm sorry I have not been present But I could not stand by and watch and let you do that to my brother If only you had listened, and not...
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iand youmatter
Nov 28, 20221 min read
Silver linings or Thank God?... 27/05/2020
Today we went to hospital but they turned us right around It moved to Gatwick park they said, I tried hard not to frown Mum was feeling...
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iand youmatter
Nov 14, 20222 min read
Sorry you can't be my friend
21/06/2020 Content deleted. Sentences that still ring in my ears when I wake up every morning, the thread that is no more, dread of that...
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iand youmatter
Nov 4, 20222 min read
The Girl I Never Had
This embryo that sits in the freezer Will I ever meet her? Will she call me mum? Or will I go to all that trouble and she’ll be gone The...
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iand youmatter
Nov 4, 20221 min read
Pebbles
Pebbles Different pebbles lay together Indigo brown snow white and heather Violet stones do scream and shout Every time the sun’s about...
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