Things

Things my mother and I share a love for:
1. The Hudson's Bay Company
2. Walking in graveyards
3. Brunch
4. Satsuma soap
5. Gerbera daisies
6. Cigarettes
7. Hope chests
8. Hanging laundry on a clothesline
9. Owning too many shoes
10. Clean bookshelves

Things my father and I share a love for:
1. Watching Alastair Sim's A Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve
2. Visiting museums in small towns
3. Giving inanimate objects names
4. The blurred lines between truth and fantasy
5. Musicians past their prime
6. Sunday rituals
7. Holding onto things
8. Accepting that we will never be artists
9. Being stubborn
10. Each other

Things my sister and I share a love for:
1. Her children
2. Chai tea
3. Sarah Mclachlan
4. Easter breakfast
5. The nineties
6. Dreams of Scotland
7. Suicide prevention
8. Grimsby Benevolent Fund
9. Grey kittens
10. Red wine

sleep in your own bed

shangri-la

if I must, I will

New friends, new life, new chances
Long nights and slow dances
Warm evening breeze
A soft hand to squeeze
And countless opportunities

We stop walking
And speak without talking

Fake love poems
And forgotten trees

My skin is speckled
With ghosts from my past