2014-Aug: Try

I try to fly

But my wings are bound.

I try to cry out

But I can't make a sound.

I try to swim

But I'm sinking fast.

I try to see

But the darkness falls fast.

1988-02-27: Hilltop

Standing on a hilltop
I watch the world
In quiet isolation,
While in the distance
Scurrying ants
Frantic to get from A to B
And back again.
Amid the desolation
The soothing emptiness
Mutes the sound of civilisation
To a quiet buzz.
I sit on my hilltop,
Knees hugged tight,
And see the day run
Like sand through an hour-glass,
Until it's time to turn,
So in the amber twilight
I walk down my hill
And rejoin humanity.