Skin awakens to its thirst welcoming the rays like a long-lost lover desperately holding on to each warm caress like a soft blanket knowing it won’t last forever In the sun lips become translucent raspberries glowing red from the inside finally admitting to themselves that they want to be squeezed in the sun eyes become … Continue reading In the sun
We arrived into this world as sensory machines Curiosity rovers roaming the landscape Equipped with tools and instruments So that we can lock on to our targets And miss them at the same time We have eyes that are made to become mesmerized distracting the brain from seeing Ears that only feel safe in the … Continue reading Compass
There is a point beyond the horizon where time is generated for each of us It rides on the northerly wind and arrives in invisible parcels to be opened only at the time of use It is acquired by inhalation nurtured by the speed of our blood and only when it feels ready does it … Continue reading Time
You were there on the day when the wind blew in from the East and swept everything in its path. You saw it all happen on TV yet you still deny it. “it was bad luck” you say as you scavenge through the rubble looking for pieces of yourself stubbornly planning to recreate a life … Continue reading The Wind
Cuddled up inside your made-up paradise you lost your way on purpose so that you can be oblivious to all the things that happen while you are asleep. Until the seagulls interrupted your coma dragging you down to the beach to show you all the things that happened while you were asleep. You ran to … Continue reading Funeral
Wrapped in a blanket as soon as you were born that was the day when they put your heart on mute. Piling layer over layer on your skin you mastered the art of the human exoskeleton Safely tucked into your cage The more protected, the more afraid. Clinging on to your emperor clothes You forgot … Continue reading Armour
We were designed as mortals so that we can be recyclable so that our molecules can be free to mingle again to create, reincarnate again and again into eternity. So we created Earth’s most durable species ever: the plastic toilet seat. This being can live up to 250,000 years composed of carbon molecules just like … Continue reading Dead End
(from the upcoming poetry collection Sunsetting: Poems for Failed Civilisations) It was here, by this empty office tower where voices once bounced against the concrete as people talked about their work about their promotions and portfolios while the world around them was silently dying Their voices were too loud for anyone to hear the sifting … Continue reading Canary Wharf
Terrified of being loved for who we are we found refuge behind fluorescent screens trading in our voices to become voyeurs only to be watched, Silently by millions of others. Our hearts became infected with a lust for self-rejection as eavesdropping became the new romance and we discovered a love without a face or a … Continue reading Blackout
No one remembers exactly how it happened We just woke up one day And the world had become one big digital machine There were no surprises or mysteries everything was planned ready for us on a smart screen We were content there was no mystery, no skipping hearbeats We fell in love with ourselves instead, … Continue reading Heart Failure
George Tsakraklides 