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Love In The Distance

I see love in the distance
I see love in a nod
In strangers who are neighbours
Who take to the street to applaud.


Players I can’t see
But a player or players I can hear
As they play music in a sign of unity
And to show that community is still here.


I see love in the distance
As I lean out and squint my eyes
To see neighbours coming closer
Keeping space, while leaving their homes inside.


I see love in the distance
In how they meet and greet each other
Their nods of applaud hold such significance
Non physical hugs, we now give each other.

I see community, I see spirit
I see strength, and I see will
And what I can’t see I can hear
And I feel the love, that distance can not kill.


I see spark and I see heart
I see unity and I see hope
In the spaces kept between neighbours
In strangers up the road. 


As they gather in their outing
For twenty to forty minutes maybe most
At a time full of doubting
To show in distance we’re still close.


I see love in the distance
In how we greet in a nod
And the physicality that’s now missing
Is replaced in a different bond.


I see love in the distance
I see love in music and a nod
In strangers who are neighbours
Taking to the street to bond in an applaud.

© Daniel Breslin

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Lost Years

Stepping into a state of grace
Away from my mistakes
Committed under the weight
Of multiple heartbreaks.

Coming to terms with the pain I was in
Pain impossible to avoid
And as I start the path from pain
I rejoice in the fact, that in that pain I was not destroyed.

It feels like everything happened at once
Everything came in a bundle
Just as I was coming to terms with one
Another tragedy would leave me humbled.

When the foundations of my family
Were crumbling before my eyes
Every other bit of pain and tragedy
Lacerated this heart inside.

I watched some I love
Go through some unexpected horrors
Lost a couple of friends
And the pain of their lost tomorrows.

Lost a bit of myself
Or an image of who I thought I was
Some of it through pain
Some of it through sacrifice for a cause.

Lost the foolish concept
That I can do it all on my own
And have been forced to get more honest
With the pain of my own home.

The pain of my beginnings
The pain of who I am
It’s in pain that I’ve been living
But I can feel it beginning to leave this man.

I accept where it is I’m at
I accept from where it is I’ve come
And I take pride in the fact
Of a lot of what I have done and overcome.

Ain’t done it all that smoothly
But I ain’t done it all that bad
My heart and soul have taken one almighty bruising
Yet here I stand.

I let go of what I hoped might be
And I’ll focus on what can be done
I won’t dwell on lost opportunity
Only on the opportunities to come.

I can’t make others decisions
That’s a privilege for themselves
I’ll just get more focused on the life I’m living
And the responsibility to myself.

I let loose responsibility to others
And redirect that focus to me
I’ve given there what I can
Now I’m giving back to me.

I made it through as best I could
I survived the best way I knew how
So I won’t linger on thoughts of should
When I look at where I am now.

These were years full of loss
And I got a little lost in them
But their lessons were not lost
And out of boys that makes men.

I’ll emerge the stronger
And I’ll emerge the better
I’ll not put up with certain things longer
But I learned I can put up with a hell of a lot of pressure.

So out of years of loss
Years lost in pain
While not side stepping the cost
I can see growth all the same.

I take pride in who I am
Focus on what’s ahead
Things fall as they fall
So I’ll not linger on regret.

Regrets are for those
Who keep their feelings to themselves
Or who walk the path of comfort
When the right path leads through hell.

This life is just a journey
We must not fear its depths
For in that there is such learning
About this world and about ourselves.

I’ve rarely shied from pain
I’ve maybe just been a little slow to share it
Always thought it was my burden to claim
And that I had the strength to bare it.

That’s a part I’m changing
And it’s bringing others closer
As I become more open in my pain and my vulnerability
And a certain family role is over.

There ain’t no fairytales here
It’s just facing what you are
And a lot of people can’t do that
So they can only get so far.

I hold my hands up to my mistakes
But I have compassion for where I was
I was operating under a lot of weights
So I have compassion for my flaws.

I have huge compassion for others
Now it’s time for some for me
And it’s through the act of self-compassion
We really set ourselves free.

Stepping into a state of grace
Away from my mistakes
Committed under the weight
Of multiple heartbreaks.

These were years full of loss
And I got a little lost in them
But their lessons were not lost
And out of boys, that makes men.

© Daniel Breslin

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Feel Good Jams

I put on them feel good jams
And I feel good man
I feel real love land
When I hear them feel good jams.

I put on My Girl
And I feel my mood lift
I put on Soul Man
And I start thinking I’m the shit.

I put on Dweller On The Threshold
And I fill up with hope
I put on Dancing In The Moonlight
And I start feeling I can cope.

These songs give me breath
These songs give me life
Whenever I’m feeling stressed
And life ain’t going right.

I got sunshine in a song
I got hope in a melody
When days are long
Hope is what these songs are sending me.

I throw on Van Morrison Warm Love
And I feel a warm hug
I throw on The Waterboy’s This Is The Sea
And I start feeling like there’s bigger things for me.

I throw on Heroes
Followed by Under Pressure
And I start feeling like this world
Can always get better.

These songs give me hope
These songs pull me through
These songs help me cope
These songs lift my mood.

I put on Solsbury Hill
And it gives me strength of will
And I let the joy of hope fill
What the future can be still.

I put on them feel good jams
And I feel good man
I feel real love land
When I hear them feel good jams.

I inch on from the past
Embrace what’s in the present
Keep hope in the future
Letting go what I can’t affect.

Every happy note
Fills me up with hope
Bowie says Let’s Dance
And I feel I like live in a world of chance.

I hear The Cranberries singing Dreams
And my heart and soul beams
I hear Tina sing Simply The Best
And I smile and my heart beats different in my chest.

I love those soulful songs
I love those uplifting rifts
That I can access anytime
They are a constant gift.

Give me light in darkness
Give me words of hope
What A Wonderful World this can be
Is what travels to me in those notes.

I put on them feel good jams
And I feel good man
I feel real love land
When I hear them feel good jams.

Nina says My Baby Just Cares For Me
And I start feeling carefree
Like the grass is always green
When Elvis sings If I Can Dream.

And even when I don’t have love
I rejoice in it in others
I listen to Love Train
And feel like I’ve soul brothers.

My soul starts dancing toward the ceiling
When I hear Jackie Wilson
Singing
I Get The Sweetest Feeling.

That’s what they mean for me
I don’t know what they mean for you
But they put soul in the machine
Whenever my soul is feeling blue.

They give me something different
When hope ain’t in quick supply
I let my soul listen
And my soul starts feeling high.

I put on Touch Of Grey
And it brings sunshine to my day
I put on Here Comes The Sun
And I know there’s always better days to come.

I put on them feel good jams
And I feel good man
I feel real love land
When I hear them feel good jams.

© Daniel Breslin

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Embrace Your Madness

Embrace your madness
What makes you unique
People always try and put you in a box
But that’s a box they can keep.

Embrace your madness
What makes you you
You an individual alive
That’s madness too.

If you ain’t a little mad
Are you even alive?
Embrace what you have
Get in touch with what’s inside.

People want to tell you what you are
You show them what you ain’t
Let em run and talk
Let em picture paint.

You get in touch with you
The feelings you have
Can’t always feel good
We all have days of bad.

It’s alright to feel what you feel
You can’t always be up
Feelings hurt can always heal
You ain’t always got to be tough.

Embrace your journey
And what you’ve been through
Embrace the now
Embrace the real you.

It’s a journey of discovery
Hopefully you find someone to journey on the road
Embrace the journey
Embrace your soul.

Embrace your madness
What makes you unique
And don’t let no one put you in no box
Until your breathing stops and it’s six feet deep.

Embrace your madness
What makes you you
You an individual alive
That’s madness too.

© Daniel Breslin

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How Do You?

How do you move on from love?
Can you answer me this?
Do you do it with a hug?
Do you do it in a kiss?

How do you find happiness in another?
When you’re sure you’ve found the one?
Only circumstances keep telling you
That your days are done.

I got my answer clearly
Them words came clear as day
But as my heart was hurting so severely
Did love have something else to say?

Did she really want to hurt me?
Or did I leave no other way?
Cause my instincts are trying to tell me
There was something else at play.

Does my experience of love
Make me struggle to let it in?
Do I feel I don’t deserve it?
And in it I can never win?

I believe in her
It’s in me I’ve been struggling to
And if I believe in her
I don’t think she’d hurt me unless she had to.

Now I don’t know anything
But I’m thinking of what wasn’t said
I think about her all the time
She’s in my heart and head.

How do you move on from love?
Can you answer me this?
Do you do it in the pub
With your mates getting pissed?

From someone whose smile lights your world
Whose voice soothes your soul
And you know no one else in the world’s presence
Has ever made you feel as whole.

I say ‘trust your dreams’
And she’s the biggest one of mine
So I’m a put aside my heavy heavy fears
Open my heart, and try to believe one more time.

I believe in her
And I believe in love
And I’m starting to believe in myself again
So in these three things I’m putting trust.

My heart, can not move on
Until it knows for certain sure
And if that’s the pain of wait
Then that’s a pain it must endure.

I’ve been all over the place
Unsure of how to act
Because my mind’s been fighting
What my heart knows as a fact.

I’m in love with her
I’ve just been struggling to love myself
And maybe letting love in is my biggest challenge
And she’s found love, and less of the challenge somewhere else.

If that’s the case, it’s one I respect
But I’m a wait and give it time
Put trust in what I don’t expect
And wait for that final sign.

So I’ll be waiting for that blow
Trying to put strength in a heart that’s been quite weak
For when it saw her last
It had barely strength to speak.

If it it could of spoke
It would of pleaded ‘please, just please, be kind’
But that was not what it experienced, but it is what she is
So I must read between those lines.

For MY HEART can not move on
Until it knows, for certain sure
And if it’s more pain it has to face
Then that’s what it’s preparing to endure.

Reality and circumstance
Keep telling me to give up
But that goes against EVERYTHING
In my heart and gut.

How do you give up on love?
When there’s even the smallest chance?
I only get one life
And that’s not the dance I want to dance.

I’ll keep my heart in check
Give a little space and time
For I could never forgive myself
If the next mistake was mine.

I’ll be waiting terrified
Knowing the odds are not in my favour
But that’s been the story of my life
So throw them dice up in the air.

It don’t mean I won’t live my life
It just means I’ll keep one eye open there
For to me, that girl is paradise
So i’ll keep a little hope somewhere.

I am incredibly scared
And scared as hell has been this man
It’s far from love I was rared
But love is what I am.

I know that I can give it
But how much can I receive it?
And when it presents itself
Do I misperceive it?

I’m kind of always expecting pain
Dealing with pain is what I know
But maybe love could reign
If some fear I could let go?

This life is but a dance
And I WILL dance it through
But I must give my heart a final chance
To find its dancing partner too.

How do you move on from love?
Can you answer me this?
For I can not move on from love
Until it tells me, it doesn’t exist.

© Daniel Breslin