Choose a positive path
In a complex world of layered lives
Commitments to work, to kids and ex wives
The simplest and purest love, true peace
Needs two hearts who can be at ease
With changing plans, altered days
Perfect aims affected in mays ways
At least for a time
Then they meet, breathe, it all makes sense
Love is great, love a gift, love is patience
Human haze,
Tube packed,
Commuter daze,
Spaces stacked,
Rumbling progress
Grumbling mass
Station after station
Rolling past
Then stop.
Doors open
Shining light
Smiles abound
Like day from night
A swish of hair
A quiet look
She enters
Ground shook
Corner rail
My hand by hers
Raging thoughts
Love whispers
Phone immersed
Hidden eyes
My waking dream
Tube surprise.
Twisting tales of love
Boy and girl embroiled
In quest, true and pure
In adventure, evil foiled
Where hearts are exposed
No soft fairy story exists
Lives at stake, battles fought
With so much at risk.
Fail and face a life
With a soul mate lost
Succeed and rapture find
Existence, joy reinforced
Understand your plot
Check the tale you are in
Disney cute or crooked dark,
Brooding from brothers Grimm
Be sure whatever you see
Go forth with blessed hope
Stay open of true heart
Two souls may yet elope
Let down your scaling hair
From your lonely tower high
Keep watch for kindred folk
The good twist for you is nigh
Over the horizon comes
Your knight in shining armour
Be bold, ready in yourself
Embrace the positive drama
Know who you are, be strong
Have learned what’s key for you
Happy ever after is there
But it depends on what you do
Woke up this morning
Processed down the street
Said good morning to someone
That twice daily I greet
Got to the station
But popped out for a drink
Now a smile for my barista
Is making me think
She’s paid to be friendly
To make the talk small
Which probably means
She feels nothing at all
She smiles at her client
Whoever they be
The look for one moment
Wasn’t special you see
But. However tiny it is
There’s the smallest chance
That more was meant
Than just an amicable glance
She’s been nice before
Made coffee for free
Shared plans for the weekend
Maybe she’s sweet on me
We’ve touched hands, albeit fleeting
When passed drinks or my change
Perhaps she wants to be asked
Perhaps this thought isn’t so strange
Now. However tiny it is
There’s the smallest chance
That more was meant
Than just an amicable glance
Beauty at every turn
A light about the world
Trees glow a new green
Since our love unfurled
Standing out from the crowd
Feeling luckier than the rest
Stronger, taller, happier
Since I woke with you on my chest
Energised to meet the days tests
Fear and worry all gone
Driven, bold, productive
Since we held each other as one
Seeing the good in faces
Hope restored as if from above
A belief it will all be alright
Since you taught me to love
One too many mornings
Same old routine
Autopilot sequence
Eyes open nothing seen
Processing through each week
Same old routine
Day after long day
Eyes open nothing seen
Years slide away unnoticed
Same old routine
Survival no revival
Eyes open nothing seen
Then along came a girl
Clarity.
In a moment of her beauty
Emotional stumble
Structures tumble
Elevated.
Life from other views
Enriched with colour
Kaleidoscope hues
No sequence
Don’t let patterns interfere
Chase your love
Anything, everything, to hold her near
My girls are amazing
And as I sit on the beach
It’s clear to me, Everything,
I want is well within reach
I want them to be happy
I want them to be kind
To be what they desire
Strong in body and mind
As they play in the sea
Maybe hey don’t know
All they could be
And how they could grow
They can use all the have
Or only one part
Just go and be happy
Live life with your heart
Pull together, be sisters
Both different and the same
Be independent of thought
Stand up for your name
Know you are loved
Unconditionally
By your dad who is proud
Of you both unendingly
Quest for Love 
Love Listens