Gordon Roberts

When my human is out It's time to play This is what I did today Saw a bug Crossing the rug Good sniffings! Tracked a mouse Around the house Good sniffings! My favourite patch To stretch and scratch Good sniffings! Suspicious stain On the couch again Good sniffings! Something brown On the eiderdown Good sniffings! Bin juice spilled My senses filled With good … [Read more...] about Olfactory Fun, By: Gordon Roberts

Bat shot shapes shift around in the shroud that I'm buried inNobody sees them but meThey haunt me permanentlyDon't have a heart for the fightIn turmoil constantlyEchoed calls from the past are invading my living spaceMy anchor lost to the deepA void inside of meNeed to be undergroundAttempting to be free … [Read more...] about My Perspective, By: Gordon Roberts

Twisted road, twisted grillTwisted bones, breathing stilledFurrowed grass, broken fenceTree trunk scarred, tin can bentDrip drip bloodDrip drip fuelSignal the end of an existence so cruelly endured Life extinctDNRNature will conceal the scarThe scene no more will be a sceneLittle sign what once had beenA tortured soul with tortured thoughtsUnable to reconcile his lossWith … [Read more...] about Treedom, By: Gordon Roberts

It's not the way that you wentThat surprised meIt's the way that I knewIt wasn't the sight of you sitting so stillThat destroyed meYou know I've seen it beforeYour skin so cold to the touchDidn't phase meI lived it half my lifeLeaving you thereFor strangers to stareIt disturbed meBut your vacant eyesReflecting the skiesWhere once was my lifeNearly killed me … [Read more...] about Devastation Before Breakfast, By: Gordon Roberts

Weep for the generations who gave their allInnocence lost in evil thrallPlaces and bloodlines consigned to the pastTo the books and the few who remember Those lives and their lossTake a terrible tollOn those who were there to regret"Not lost in vain" the victorious refrainNow here we march doomed to repeat … [Read more...] about The Lost, By: Gordon Roberts