I wish I was everything you wanted
And a whole lot more
If I had it I would flaunt it
If it brought you to my door
It seems I ply myself hopelessly
As I pry you to notice me
My eye lingers hopefully
Your eye seems to open me
But it’s gaze will pass
In the blink of an eye
Look in my glass
Drink’s running dry
I’m a shrouded face
In this crowded place
If I was allowed some space
In this overcrowded race
If you could meet my gaze
For more than a second
You could make me or kill me
For those eyes could be weapons
They could be daggers
Or ladders to light
In this room of advancers
You hold the answers tonight.

When you move in step
I lose my breath
You ooze finesse
Did I move out of depth
I want to dive past the shallow
Straight into the deep
You you’re not shallow
There’s depth underneath
I want to take a peek
If I could get close enough
But around you I feel weak
No act of being tough
I’m exposed
Although quietly
My heart’s closed
Doesn’t want variety
For only you will do
I look in my heart I know it’s true
But I know that I’m behind
When you pay me little mind
But I don’t give up
Cause you’re definitely worth the fight
Always keep the chin up
Some say you won’t, but you just might.

© Daniel Breslin

Call on me
Pretty lady
Whenever you need
Good company
For times are tough
These days baby
I’ll be as happy to see you
As you me.

People keep talkin’
I don’t always listen
As they keep tellin’ me
What I should be.
With you whether kissing’
Talkin’ or just sittin’
I don’t need to be
Anything, but me.

Call on me
Pretty baby
If ever you,
Are feeling down.
If you want to talk
I’ll just listen
Or we can dust it off
And paint the town.

Need a place
To lay or play
Then woman
I’m your man.
When you want
You can stay
Wish to leave
You always can.

Call on me
Pretty lady
Whenever you feel
The want or need.
I’ll not make demands
Try and command
Or try understand
Anything you don’t need.

If you’re feeling alone
Pick up the phone
If I can
I’ll call by
For life is a dance
And without its romance
The living
Are only living to die.

So call on me
Pretty lady

Drive me crazy
Make me laugh and cry.
For life is a dance
And in its romance
Is where the livin’
Start learning to fly.

© Daniel Breslin

It is the end of an era
Don’t say end of my youth
I feel it brought us much nearer
Much closer as a group
After all fights and all arguments
Do you know what the hard thing is?
It’s definitely parting ways
So there were definitely happier days
These walls are just stone
But these walls were our home
Just rubble to you
Worth more than double to few
Way of living could never have remained
But the memories that it contained
Are memories that I’ve now framed
Probably nothing that I’d of changed
A lot of new friendships born
Some friendships worn
A few of them were torn
But they were all reborn
To a greater state
No greater escape
Than a place with all your mates
Knew eventually we’d have to hit the brakes
Some said it was the mother of all dives
But it was a kind of mother in our lives
It helped us open eyes
And it’s sad saying goodbyes
Anytime anyone wanted a laugh
Or wanted a place to crash
All they’d have to do is ask
Now that’s all in the past.

No longer have the house
So no longer people nipping in and out
Everybody is leaving
So nobody will have the freedom
To call in every evening
You didn’t need a reason
People were always dropping in
Catching up on how we’ve been
What you been doing?
Who you been seeing?
Many jokes leaving smiles beaming
Many tough times not ignored
But not many times when you’d be bored
Times of strain
But can’t complain
If they came again
I’d so the same
Though it brings a certain sadness about me
Cause simply
I see
Times shared in this house
We might never again see
Because right before my eyes
I see us moving forward in different lives
All fights are history
It’s simple nights drinking tea
That will always stay with me
Yeah there were harder drinks than tea
But they all blur into one
Nights of intoxication
Don’t always mean more fun
It’s nights of simplicity
I’ll remember more vividly
Yeah I’ll remember fondly
The nights that we got jarred
But there was a greater bonding
On the nights we dropped our guard
Times when we let others in
We became more like brothers then.

I’m just thankful for the opportunity
That created all that unity
My friends and family are my community
A lot of times that they’ve been through with me
Packed my bags
With all the memories I’m filing
And I’m just glad
I’m leaving the house smiling
For though I’m sad saying goodbye
And a piece of me wants to cry
I can’t help but keep a grin
When I think of times that have been
Though I’m still young
I’m quickly growing up
At times I want to stay young
And wish the world would just slow up
But it keeps moving and we keep growing
It won’t stop moving, so I won’t start slowing
No I’ll keep going
But I keep stowing
All these memories, I stack them up
It’s a lot of memories, we’re packing up
And as I fill my bags
With what now feel like worthless rags
I think of all the times we’ve had
And I think at times we must be mad
It was an experience, if nothing else
And that experience, was something else
Times I never will replace
So I take my time don’t leave with haste
And as I reach the bottom of these stairs
And give each last room its due stares
I recap all the times we’ve shared
And know that now I’m more prepared
Cause as we shut the door
One last time on this house
I know we took a lot in, but I realise
We’re definitely taking more out.

© Daniel Breslin

Paranoia’s eating me
It gets worse
I think it’s beating me
On top of that it’s cheating me
Out of everything
I plan on keeping for me
It wants the lot
Driving away everything I’ve got
Giving me visions
Of how others are living
Hours of fibbing
It’s building a prison
It’s trapping me in
My mind’s at it again
Thoughts in a spin
Picture her kissing him
Picturing them
Two cheating friends
Mind in knots
Over figment plots
Indignant shots
Get in and rots
At my sanity
Too smart for vanity
So I question their humanity
As he suppresses the man I could be
They’re my friends too long a time
To be fibbers, the thought is silly
But I’m at my wits end, as the thought hits my spine
My body shivers, as if it’s chilly.

Paranoia
You’re a mind destroyer
I don’t want to be your employer
All I do is annoy her
With foolish thoughts
That you have brought
I’ve tried I’ve fought
But it seems I’m bought
Just one more toy
You aim to destroy
Release this boy
And cease this ploy
Are my efforts in vain?
Can I beat your game?
Trips down memory lane
All you brought me is pain
Your work is invisible
But you leave me miserable
I just want to be happy
But you keep at me
Can’t let you trap me
Let your efforts zap me
Of all my energy
Leaving me just a memory
Of the life I used to have
The man I used to be
With you it’s twice as bad
Your plan’s no use to me.

Paranoia we’ve met before
Please stop knocking at this door
You’re getting old, becoming a bore
Let loose your hold, and leave me for
You’re destroying everything that I am
I really don’t like this man
I just stare at my reflection
And don’t feel we even bare a connection
Is my hold lost? Do we not relate?
As cold as frost, my heart breathes hate
Paranoid fits, that I resent
Have me lying in pits, of self contempt
‘I swear on the bible, I never meant’
My words spiral my descent
Falling deeper through his realms
Hard to keep her with him at the helms
Fine picks his spot with a lens
Then his arms extend
Now my thoughts descend
To her with other men
It eats me whole
Release this soul
Set me free
From your misery
End your spell
You’re making my life hell
Your negative thoughts
Are thoughts I need to expel
For only positive thoughts
Are thought to excel.

© Daniel Breslin

The aftermath
There’s no afterglow
Good times past
It’s hard letting go.

Highs were felt
Laughs were shared
The highs slowly melt
A burden bared.

What goes up
Must come down
Got a little messed up
Now I’m coming back down.

© Daniel Breslin

He can’t be consoled
Because he’s lost his hold
On something ice cold
But it wasn’t cold before
What’s in store
He doesn’t know no more
Never saw him chasing
Cause he never saw it wasting
Now he’s feeling cased in
As it seems she has replaced him
In the district that’s his heart
He was always strict and smart
Now in conflict torn apart
As she rescripts her part
The part he thought she was born to play
That heart use to warm his day
Is the part she has thrown away
A heart of stone is the role it plays
Why didn’t she stop and say?
All he sees is hypocrisy
He never even thought this way
Now feels caught in the light of day
He’s bare for her to see
Do you not care anymore for me?
The boat’s been rocked, this just can’t be
It seems she’s docked, left him at sea.

He’ s a fighter though this mans a swimmer
He ain’t no damn beginner
But on his mind this one’s a spinner
He’s been left behind, and he starts to simmer
Now at first he tried to swim after
But tide got him, and she got faster
Remembers how she was eyed, and how he cast her
Trying to battle his pride, still avert disaster
Time’s not on his side, if he wants to follow
Is it water or pride, he wants to swallow?
In balls of pain
He calls her name
Behind walls of shame
She calls the game
Caught by surprise, ended so abruptly
He said look in my eyes, she said don’t interrupt me
She said they played it out
He complains she never gave the shout
If I hurt you, you never warned or said
Now you hurt me and just storm ahead
You’re treating me like I’m not human
I’m choking on what you’re doing
It’s me and you, it’s you and me
But this isn’t you, this just can’t be
You can’t walk out, let’s talk it out
Water fills his mouth, his pride means bout.

He put pride beside love
And let love rise above
She put herself before them both
She pushed, he untied the rope
He starts to smother
But he’ll recover
From this lover
And one day he’ll find another
With her no longer beside him
He now feels his world capsizing
He knows life can be surprising
So he looks to a new horizon
She hasn’t got the will to go on longer
But what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger
At the minute she’s all he longs for
But all he longs for he will conquer
He takes in his new surrounding
His heart’s pounding
She wasn’t clowning
She left him drowning
He’s in the water, with a paddle
When he hits land, he’ll be back in the saddle
As he begins to straddle
He wins a battle
Out at sea, he sees few joys
So he deploys his boys
They keep him afloat, when hope’s destroyed
Hope’s on a boat, saying it’s void
And as she gathers knots
He unties his own
He’s cold and shocked
But his boy take hold and guide him home.

© Daniel Breslin