Pompeii

Don Henley once said “Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge” And I wish bridges never burned and instead remained, open to visitors, edifices to a place where there was a different peace No railings slithering across for safety, just the moss in bloom, wreaths, reminders of an unfortunate inevitable doom And…

Back on blogging

So I’m back. Time and discipline will tell whether permanently or just this night, but I’ve been told I need to find a routine or something to repeat on a daily basis before going to bed. Obviously masturbation seemed the easy way out but while a happy ending seems appealing, this seems more a means…

I wonder

I wonder how it is to be part of the generation below, looking up at ours To see many the same, many licking imaginary scars Most, rebels, with no causes, just trippin’ away the time Burning the days, fillin’ up on tequila, salt and lime My heroes all died young, I just hear their immortal…

Victory belonging to opportunists and not liberty

The Arab Spring has flooded the channels of our 21st century sensationalist media for months now and seems to have climaxed with the death of Gaddafi. But is the downfall of a dictator the pinnacle of a revolution? Is the world going to sit and watch and celebrate as thousands of innocent people with family,…