Your Knight in Shining Armour

I fly on angel white wings

Past clouds of tears

That rain down their sorrows

Down upon you

I swoop down over

The drowsy city

Dipping lower past garden walls

Where ivy climbs

And feels at home

I slip between your curtains

And stand guard by your head

I watch the moonbeams

Kiss your hair

And spread across your bed

So many times

I wasn't here

For this night long vigil

All those years

I rode to wars

Avenging the poor

And protecting the land

I missed your love

I failed to see your pain

But in my heart

I carried a flame

Knowing that

The day would come

When trumpets welcomed me

Back to your home

I did not know

About the vials

Of crystal clear glass

That lined your sill

I did not know

How they seemed to increase

Carrying the pain

Of your love for me

No little birdie

Came to find me

As I practiced

My strokes on the snow

Not little mole scout

Told me the tale of how

Vials of salt- water tears

Had extinguished my flame

I swoop down tonight

On a city I once loved

Past the turrets

That now look so dead

I flit in between

Your curtains

And stand guard

Beside your head

I watch as the moonlight

Spreads over your bed

As a row of crystal vials

Keep me company

This last vigil

Sorry Might Just Not Be Enough

The paths we tread

Are many my son

Tread with care

Lest your feet do wear

I hold your hand

And hold you back

Lest you should see

What your durst not

A thousand miles

My path takes me

I laugh to scorn

A thousand things

And yet your face

Shines into my dreams

And all my waking

Regret filled hours

The dirt on my fingers

Cannot be washed away

By a simple kiss

From a You Who Care

But I'll bear it in mind

When I come back for you

Just to see you smile

And accept my apology

Dream Sequences

My horse jumped

Yet another stile

As his hooves hit

The surf that sprayed

Right into my dreams

Tonight

So much outside

Doesn't seem to touch

Me though I watch

This and a million

Other movies in dream-time

Places I knew

Just months ago

Have lived on

Behind my eyes

A world or two

Captured in memory

Growing now

Of their own accord

I watch the sleep

Of a million others

And wonder where

My pen doth stray

My world revolves

Despite the line

And yet I know

I can't leave

The Past alone

Crazy

Why is it

That there's something

In the air

That I can't quite put my finger on

Why is it

That my lips clench

Over whatever thought

Is rattling the bars of my mind

Tonight/ Desperate, wanting out

Why is it that I have to smile

Why is it that I can't say no

Why is it that I couldn't remember

And why is it that the memories come

Rushing back tonight?

Why is it that

Some things are just

Too crazy to be believable

Too crazy to be true

They just happen

Because they're just

The right kind of crazy

Nights

There are nights

When the dart board

On the wall/ laughs

At me/ in a crazy way

And the whole damn world

Turns upside down

There are nights

When ghosts from long

Long ago/ Come back for

A chat/ A cuppa perhaps

Nights when my phone rings

And is never picked up

Nights when we're walking

Down that road again

And you grab my hand

And hold it tight

Nights when I wonder

Why I didn't cross the line

When I wonder why

I always come too late

The line's already drawn

There are nights

When the thread slips

Out of one hand

Into the other

Nights when you can't help

But smile because

You've done it right

Why doesn't she agree?

Why sulk around, I wonder

When all's well

That ends well

Why does my princess alone cry

She wants to be first

She'd do it all again

She'd do it differently

Coz she knows it can't

Just be any other way

But the night winks knowingly

And beckons me down

Into the realms of dreams

Once known/ The only world

Where I sleep sound

Come through the barrier

Let your head

Break the surface

Open your eyes

To the realms of sleep

~ Sierra