Salt

"Why are you looking at me like that"

"I'm swimming in those eyes"

Oh my love, be careful;

I will drown you


I am not the woman you think I am.

Galvanised

"The beginning is the most important part of the work" [Plato]

The afternoon has grown dark and a torrent envelopes us, and we are cleansed. It has been a long time since I wrote for others to bear witness.

I used to write for hours - surrounded by those who understood me I was happy to share; unfortunately one day I found myself in a world very different to my own, with people who were determined to misunderstand me, and I decided that people no longer deserved my words.

I rise. As I always do, when my latest incarnation is carved, when the poison has battled my blood and been found wanting, as it always does. I rise, returned to myself; galvanised.

Let my words flow like champagne and burn like whisky, let those who hear the song of my soul come and dance in the glade of my heart, let those who do not go unheard.