Name

 You can say I'm better

Or you can say I am the same,

I would love you better if you could 

remember my name

Name, I want to live forever

No, I want to die in a flame

Come on write me a letter

People remember my name

All away

 Away, all away now

Oh you throw it all away

Well I've seen it all before

Like a desert floor

When you've thrown

It all away

Away, oh away now

Throw it all away

See that open door

Watch the ocean pour

When you have thrown

It all away

Away, all away now

You have thrown it all away

Well in the roll of a dice

Between the fire and the ice

When you've thrown it

All away

Away, oh away now

Throw it all awy

Like so many times before

Could've been rich but now you're poor

Because you've thrown

It all away

Snowdropping

 Drip, drop

warmth of Spain in your pale cream

Milk white warm 

And sadness for the year that's been

But like a mother's breast

Full of life giving

For the year to come

Miniature brothers

Miniature sisters go

walking through the forest

Praising the cool silent winter Earth

Healing flower footsteps

Bloom in their path

Praising the life of this good Earth

What purity you can read

In their books of green leaves

Standing up like flutes or reeds

But heads bowed down

In prayer, humility

Or perhaps

Just loving the Earth

As it smiles on them

In it's darkest months

Growing them in its womb

Like eggs, their bulbs will

burst forth in birth

Growing strong with Mother Earth's milk

Snow white babies crying out in joy

Snow white children running through the woods

In their snowshoes girl and boy

Telling all the fairy tales of childhood

Road hump

 I've got the road hump

It's sticks in my ear

Like a sugar lump

I want to swallow it clear

But it goes, thump, thump

Every time a lorry comes near

And my chair just jumps

And my windows shake with fear

I've got the road hump

I've been living here too long

The road hump that just rings out strong

Like a beef steak rump

That's too tough to chew

I've got it stuck in my gut

Like some kind of glue

That road hump

Like a bump to my head

That road hump

Gives me bumps in my bed

It's like a slow jump off a high cliff

I need to vote Trump or else smoke a spliff

Ash

 I can't stand to see the Ashes fall

Though I know our backs are up against the wall

I can't stand to hear the Ashes fall

Another ax, another chain and ball

In our hands the keys to all

Will we understand when nature calls?

I can't stand to see the Ashes fall

All the Ash leaves, all their keys

Keys and locks, locks and keys

Another lock, one more key

Another prisoner is set free

In their limbs one disease

Take wind or whim, brings them to their knees

In our hand one more ball

In our mouths one last call

Who will answer the Ash's need?

See the fall of the twin bladed seed

One more flock of birds flown free

One more hawk flies across the sea

But one more knock on the Ash's door

Then another, then one time more

Can't you save the Ash from death's maw

Can't you help save just one more tree

Ship at sea

You are  like a fire that must blow up to stay alive
Consume the wood of your surroundings
But now this bare room
Is black and charred
And I was your fuel but
You have burnt my heart away
I have no more love to give you
I have no words left to say

I know things will never change
That between us lies
a chasm and into it you've thrown
All the love of our abandon
And all the wood of my heart has kept on burning for you
But now it is a smouldering pile
of ashes without a spark

And now the room has gone black
there is nothing left for us to see
Who will light
the way between us
When the way is lost like ship at sea

Horizons

 All's well they say

Down in hotwells

All's well

Like a mermaid's

flag

The love that was flown

In the rotting fish crown

Soon will be worn by the hag

And the man that was bright 

And full in youth

Must search for the will

To survive

There are more than ships

On the horizon

That go down

When you close your eyes

I see in you all that's infinite

That we give it away down the line

Our children inherit the Earth

But what will it be worth in good time?

No, for ours is not for saving

Ours is only lived in our own time

The future belongs to those others

Who will have to live with our crimes

Yet they will have love and courage

Theirs is youth in its prime

And where we may wish to run for cover

They will fight on with hearts that shine

And now as I'm leaving

I say adieu

All the stage is worth living through

And fighting for a chance to save your brother

And fighting for a chance of love one more time