The Runners

"Two people find love on the road"

It was my sixtieth birthday. I was running my fifteenth half marathon in three hundred sixty-five days to qualify for the "Saturn" level in Half Fanatics. I could have gotten by with twelve, but I didn't want to just get...

Sometimes I'll know her facebetter than my own.The gleam in her eyes against streetlamps,starlight striking her dark wavy hairlike the oceans I speed by at nightalready telling me the lifetime of wantsswimming and screaming through the blood.And even though we...

Everywhere I look there are images of youLying scattered over my possessions - they no longer feel like mineYou litter every thought with every single thing you touchedYour essence spread over minute details that bring a whole other world crashing...

Vidi, vici, veni

"I saw, I conquered, I came (and so did she!)"

We met at first as strangers lost upon the restless seaI looked across at you to find you looking back at meI think we must have spotted something in each other thena longing shared by both of us, an emptiness,...

Gretna Green

"shall we runaway to where the grass is greener"

Shall we run away,To a faraway landWhere there’s a place Where the grass is greener.Where you and I,Could fulfil our dreamsAnd live happily ever after With no constant fears.Of the emptiness from within,Which our hunger for each otherCan’t suppress and satisfy But there’s...

We weren’t ever meant to be together,Broken pieces forced to mend,Just look at how well we came to blend! But then we broke apart,Shattered on the floor again,How many times can we pretend? Different cracks and different pieces,Jagged fringes, sharp shards,Old glue failed. But...

The night would soon falland it could be the last timemy hands roam your body.It always begins without words,the chilly wind through your hair,fleeting sunlight through those silk spindles,a nearly still frame of concentrated fireburning in separate beautiful strands.A murmur...

From Paris with Love!

"That one fateful day came back with a bang"

Built upon an everlasting loveOf a billion dreamsThat someday will come trueFor a future of being with you.To the start of a new beginningsFor the story of how we fell in loveOn that one fateful dayFour seasons ago.Amongst the autumnal...

Side show Juliet special effectsBlack Girl White Girl Oakland XIn the dark it all makes senseLove is  West side Romeo stealing carsTattooed muscles skin and scarsIn his eyes you can see the starsLove is  All is loveLove is all Late night Lancelot purple...