Homo Sapiens

Complex

Biodegradable

Disorganised

Fragile

Clever

Adaptable 

Energy drinks 

Religions

Primates

Vulnerable 

Errant

Curious

Electric cars 

Confused

Developing

Believer's 

Non-believer's

Structured

Scratch cards

Physical substances

Tissues

Organs

Systems

Mobile phones

Creative

Poetic

Artistic

Musical

Falible

Apple pay

Suseptible

Tobacco

Alcohol

Vaping

Living cells

Inventive

Full of faults

Intelligent 

A highly developed brain

A capacity to communicate 

Black Lives Matter

Abstract reasoning 

Love

Hate

Hurt

Anger

Pride

Fishing

Excitement

Sensitivity 

Love Island

The creator of social structures

Humour 

Morality

Overthinking

Bipedal 

Taking the knee

Devious 

Consciousness

Self aware

Recyclable

Time limited

Possibly in their final hours

The final minutes before their midnight

Their finger on their own self-distruct button

Living without real happiness

Doubtful of their real purpose

Questioning just what the hell happened and where the hell it went wrong!

Quietly Silently Calmly Whispering

quietly stood on the bridge over the silent railway

mist resting calmly across a field

my ears hear the whispering voices of people my eyes cannot see

coming and going on the breeze

gently mixing with the sound of the calm all around me 

the ice from the early morning silently persisting under the shadows along one side of the lane

the opposite side

the side in the weak winter sun 

quietly dries

and as I walk

without a sound

sunlight flickers through the bare winters hedge

silently sleeping

awaiting the warmth of spring

like the apples on the trees in the orchard 

quietly awaiting the signal to start the cycle once more

Wouldn't Hold The Door Open

sat on the bloody stairs wheezing

like an old man in a young mans clothes

a fag behind me left ear

a 'lived-in' nose

just a grumpy old man who wouldn't hold a bloody door open for a woman

and those bloody cars

splashing through puddles

creating rainbows

I wouldn't hold the door open for them neither

no pot of gold at the end of that one

but I never give up quitting!

"Don't write notes here!" the note reads

I wouldn't hold the door open for a bloody note neither

nor for the girl who lifted her head from her 'mobile' 

just in time to avoid walking into the bloody 'Tesla' 

stuck at the pumps

"Oy! You can't breakdown there mate!" 

Bloody obsessive!

I wish I'd spent more time at work!

Bloody work 

I don't think so!

Wouldn't hold the door open for work!

The NHS is very sick - wouldn't hold the door open for the NHS neither

Bloody NHS!

...just wouldn't!

Lived-In Face

The man 

with the lived in face

makes another purchase

of the items 

which made it so

The Evening News

Police beating

death.

Murder

Shooting

Sudden death

16 year old stabbing

Death

13 year old shooting

Death

...the weather

A Nice Day

Two aeroplanes in race to the sun

mark an early morning sky

clouds as huge as mountain ranges

outlined by the early morning sunlight

tower in the distance

early morning risers run engines to clear windows

mist like a a duvet - lays low across a damp field

sheep carry-on oblivious 

early morning azure blue skies

visible through a rip in the clouds

disappear as the rising sun breaks through

lifting the damp streets and colouring in all it's gloomy spaces - I think it's going to be a nice day!