It’s fight night
Feel my pulse tonight
I was built to excite
Don’t wilt I ignite
Swing a left then a right
And I surpass my height
To fast for sight
It’s your ass tonight
Swing speed like a light
Sting recede you feel the bite
In this ring it’s my fight
A King witness my might
You’re exactly my type
Can’t match me I’m ripe
On my feet I’m too light
The best you’ll meet in your life
And the best will beat you tonight
Now stick that in your pipe
I’m a boxing delight
Out foxing despite
Your advantage in height
I’m a savage you’re right
I manage my spite
Going to do damage tonight
Need bandages from my strikes
Dodge your left, lodge my right
Bob and weave I’m too bright
Too great an insight
When your locked in my sight
I swing one hell of a right
Hit floor, ring bell, that’s goodnight.

I’ve been beating them pads
You been eating kebabs
I’m going to beating your abs
While you’re eating my jabs
I’ll duck your right hook
Then erupt an upper cut
Construct while your stood shook
Then destruct till you can’t stand up
If you’re scarred up
It’s not some hard luck
It’s down to hard work
You better keep that guard up
You can’t batter me
You can’t knacker me
You ain’t a patch on me
I’m Mr. Accuracy
When I cast my stare and aim
You best prepare for a blast of pain
Barely able to grasp my name
I’m a different class in this game
I switch my style and change
So you’re always in my range
No such thing as a fair exchange
After me you won’t fight the same
Bet your life I’m a fine bet
Ain’t never been behind yet
Mess up your face then your mind set
No one notice you in a line check
Fists like kegs, hitting your head
Till your legs, feel like lead
Then when I’m ahead
Lights out! Just like I said.

Your game plan abandon it
Never just a random hit
The ring I’m commanding it
Falling’s the only hand you’ll have in it
You keep presenting challenges
I keep implementing damages
My anger I can channel it
Present a battle and I’ll handle it
You can try work me on the chin
Like I’ve been working in the gym
I only came to win
There’s no chance I’m giving in
I’ll rise to the challenge here
I survive and persevere
I’ve got drive you can’t get near
I thrive on the atmosphere
Feel alive when I hear them cheer
As I strive to do damage here
No one I’ll dive, cause no one I fear
Anyone you throw at me
Better be prepared to go toe to toe with me
Call yourself a challenger
I call myself the damager
You be calling to your manager
‘You said it’d be a tight bout
He just knocked my lights out’
I’m gifted as a fighter
Arms lifted, defence tighter
When I throw punches
They come in bunches
The body crunches
So trust your hunches
There ain’t no solution here
You’re fighting an executioner
Got a whole new demeanour
When I step in the arena
Make you realise you’re just a dreamer
But hey, I’m looking for a cleaner.

© Daniel Breslin

Summer smiles
Summer beams
Summer styles
Summer dreams
Summer love
Summer girls
Summer kisses
Some world.

© Daniel Breslin

Sometimes you can’t make it on your own
Sometimes you can’t make it by yourself
Sometimes this world will cut you to the bone
You can’t always, refuse everybody’s help.

Sometimes this life will tare your guts out
Sometimes it will break your heart
Does no good to keep everybody shut out
Make what’s tough, ever more hard.

Sometimes this life will eat you up
Sometimes it will beat you down
There’ll be times it seems you have no luck
As you look at what you built crumble to the ground.

It’s times like these you can’t make it on your own
Times like these, you discover your real friends
They’re the ones once all is known
Don’t even have to ask, they insist on help.

Times like these, character emerges
Times like these, are times to grow
Times like these, serve a purpose
Just make sure these times, are not all you know.

© Daniel Breslin

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