I Never Felt The Pain

I never felt the pain as the needle kissed my vein

Just a gentle push and I felt the rush

to fly on wings my heart to sing

from high above a sun kissed world

to see the pavements far below

where people wove their stately dance

walking laughing dip and prance

young and old silver and gold

like harvest fields in waves they sway

bending windblown gaily twisting

I spin I turn to hear loves song

I dive I reel I must stay not long

two lovers sing my heart does flow

for love has no ending of this I know

I see the lover stoop and kneel

oh how my heart do cry and feel

loves promise wings my way to hear

to my heart so it flutters and do cheer

his promise of love my breast does fill

of love so enduring

the ends of the earth they do meet

or the oceans run dry around my feet

while fish do swim and sing in the street

as up the hills the rivers do flow

or the geese do dance on their feet

having lost their feathers to fly

I turn I dance my wings I spread

I swoop I soar as years like rabbits have flead

back to my childhood where life all began

the flower of ages I hold in my arms

first love of the world my mother long gone

my eyes fill with tears of qualms I have none

for still I remember her soft sweet song

all the clocks in the city

though they whirr and do chime

from my bed cannot wake me from this sleep of mine

let time not deceive you for time has no pity

its grip is of iron in its chains will you bind

try as you might time cannot be conquered       

Time is invincible uncaring unkind

I twist I turn the stars for me don’t shine

while in the dark I sit with scales in my hand

nightmare naked in a court that is mine

in the shadows the watcher who but time

the judge and jury his to command

the evidence when given is never in rhyme

it’s a cough not a kiss from behind the hand

the verdict is given

guilty is time

I think I wake sure I am not

I twist and turn my bed is wet

Is it over no not yet

I gasp I wretch vague life leaks away

the needle takes me I cannot stay

spinning turning tomorrow today

I do not know how time will have its way

my stomach knots am I times pet

to have to hold I hope not yet

now once again the needles lure

more of the same a hope not a cure

I drift away on a rocky road

watching life as it swirls away

maybe tomorrow or maybe to day

of this I know time will have its say

the rainbows swirl

summers green

winter white

life so tight it twirls blue and green

autumns valley brown and gold

winters white of falling snow

all dead and buried in a frosty glow

I turn I twist I wake

but my eyes are blurred I cannot see  

to the bathroom I crawl it is my need

a turn of the tap with water the basin fills

as bloody hands I plunge  to the wrists

I stare to wonder what is missed

the door is open I look inside

glacier barren my cupboard is

I turn I stagger the sheets do call

I look I see a desert my bed

I tremble as the fingers reach

the needle by the teacup I had left

shiny pointed oh so sharp

a key to the land of the living dead

Images swirl a golden curl

the needles blood takes me again

I lift I fly I swoop I dive

am I dead or am I alive

I fall I tumble it’s in my brain

mother of pearl are colours in vain

I see a mirror I take a look

I see myself

I see distress

I see life’s blessings

I see them less

I see my window

I stand and stare

my life is ebbing do I care

the bed is soiled

I cannot move

My heart is fluttering

my breath is short

the cup does turn

the crack is opening

a figure stands

the robe is black

the hand is bony

how clearly I see

the shade of death

to me it beckons

I can’t resist

I rise the hand I take

bone fingers cold and hard in mine        

as together we fly to the promised land.,,,,,,