Buttercups spread thick

Across fresh warm summer grass

Melt in midday heat

These long lonely days

Waiting in a gloomy haze

Let me wipe your eyes

Creaky tired joints

Sink into hard concrete floors

On the run again

This giant planet

Just a drop in the ocean

Silence, hold your peace

Delicate blossom

Falls from Jacaranda trees

Like purple rain drops

In a sheltered cove

Sea lions soak up the sun

Basking blubber sponge

Cerulean skies

Bleeding into the ocean

Another day dies

We flutter and flap

Around flames that burn our wings

Into the darkness

In innocent eyes

Cold irony is reduced

To empty cliche

Always be my own

I need you to need me too

Never leave my side

Crevices and cracks

Make excellent homes for bats

Let’s build a new home

Silent bluebells toll

For the woods that we destroyed

To play with our toys

Hairy hoglets hide

Behind bramble and thicket

Turn their backs inside

Curled up tight all night

Hedgecubs hibernate daily

A cosy bed nest

Longing to belong

But the gaping space between

Cannot be straddled

Every single drop

Squeezed out, wrung up and mangled

Dried and fading fast

Pack away your life

Into these cardboard boxes

On the move again

Whatever I try

I can’t do this on my own

We are the forest

Untended and wild

Life goes on without us, yet

Better together

Slowly trees creep in

Taking over the grazed field

Wilderness returns

Desolate, dormant

This earth, this ground, this same land

Neglected, waiting

Just a house of cards

Tumbling down to the ground

Inevitable

Keep you locked away

Don’t let you come out to play

This is where you’ll stay