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This year, I set myself the foolish task of trying to write something every day, and what you see here is the result. None of this is finished, polished, or in any way good. It's usually a few lines at the end of the day when I'm tired, my head's broken, and this nonsense spills out of it onto the page. Feel free to comment away, and if you think anything has any potential then let me know and I might have a go at working on it further.

But hang on, where's the first month? You've ripped us off! I hear you say... Well, yes. I have been writing since the beginning of January, but it's taken me a while to get the blog up, so everything here is a month old.

Friday, 21 October 2016

Journeys in the dark

Feeling the lights as much as seeing them
The rhythm and rumble of rolling stock
Cities pass like fading scars
That crumble from your skin like rock.

There's a country out there somewhere
Writhing nature in the dark
Plants and animals alive
With hungry phloem and throbbing hearts.

And I can see electricity flickering
And flashing through the night
Floodlit buildings pulling focus
From the world outside my sight.

Every now and then I see
A clear reflection of my face
Hovering in that darkness
Like a spirit out of place.

And time stands still in winter
No quivering leaf or rippling lake
To break that frozen silence
And keep the world awake.

I close my eyes and close my mind
To any outside influence
Breathe out the worries of the day
And give myself to providence.

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