Mark Heathcote Poems

Why do spiders live in cobwebs?
It makes no sense that things are this complex.
Don't be so quick to judge me.
Earthquakes are followed by tsunami.
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I'm a descending leaf
spiralling to the ground
and soon to be icebound
in unseasonal disbelief
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My heart has had enough of the carnival ride
how tiring it is to be thrown around
jolted back and forth,
how I long for something now more sedate and stable.
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I denote your eyes are blue
And tears don't look so good on you
I see that rainbows hitherto
Follow you down whatever avenue
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In foreign hands, I could not be honeycomb,
not when you is my harbour and my bee glade home.

In alien arms, death might as well be mine
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The need to be understood
The need to be loved can't be feigned
It's in our blood, it's in our veins
It's a vial of love that can runneth over
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Love - I want to build you a temple
Out of the wind, the fire and the smoke
Love - I want to build you a sanctuary,
Where the winter can never near or follow
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There are headlights in the fog
With a beating heart and a desire
Hoping to find you
before you grow too old to realise,
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I've got to find a new beginning, starting at the end
I've got to make sense of the senseless and weep.
I've got to walk in solitude and know I'm not alone
I've got to shelter under a sprig of deadly nightshade
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You've got to trust that all will be well again
Come the morning when a drunk hasn't drown
You've got to trust that all will be well again
Come the next night in sobriety, he'll be spellbound.
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