Swathed in his cloak he wanders in silence They cannot see him  Incognito, he is hidden from the glare of their sight Imagining the ease with which he passes right by them No bullshit or traumas And no bloodshot eyes. Taking revenge on individual proponents The flock is dispersed Vengeance is his The sheep without the herder Are easily fleeced Transparent unseen breathing with ease No need to look forever behind Each corner taken in the warren and classrooms Threats disappear when you cannot be seen The truth is they see him They wait by the bus Following behind they swear and they cuss 'Ho gay boy, hey poofter' Who is your boyfriend? They laugh as he crumbles Tears from his eyes. At home in the morning Mother is caring He masks all of the terror There right behind his eyes Quietly he slips out of his front-door Determined to get there But fearful and timid Despite all of the nerves The confusion, crouched demeanour He wishes he could fight

Standing on the edge of reason I look from high to the crowd beneath me Each face different from the next Some bewildered Most perplexed This man they seek Redemption beats him But what release when chains are heavy Manacled by invisible tethers Humanity pretends that all is well Eyes closed tightly The truth to frightening Witnesses are not in favour The horror of the tyrants fists of fury The crowd below Worships freely A pretence so great He knows they love him Truly Freely As I gaze from way up high I drop my ladder down from the sky The first to try may slip and fall The multitude will hear my call To not be blinded by visions of glory This man who would have them believe him righteous Climbers ascend to destroy his piety Don't be fooled by those false prophets Who would tell you now That they are worthy Delivering nothing While offering riches Politicians Sons of bitches The throng, like

Whenever I am feeling blue A day like this As the sun shines through Warming me To the core In this short life I could not ask for more This is my life Warts and all Sometimes up The occasional fall Stumbling through it every day Working for an average? wage The heat within is plain to see  A healthy tan Short bared knees Insects nipping As the grass is cut Vigilant I won't be caught The life of man is dampened by The northern winds  They destroy our hopes Winters dawn Causing me pain Chilled And sad Frustration plain. Now my worries disapear This month has proven The hottest of the year Up with the lark Despite myself I wander In this natural haven Buzzards Peer Pheasants brazen I wish that every years summer Could show me such bliss The sweetest of aromas Around every ditch The warmth of the wind Massages my soul The star in her majesty Appears as if golden The times that we've had The memories tokens Stolen by chance

Beyond my sight Where I cannot look For fear of discovering An ugly truth The blinding deceit The lies of fools Who don't bear witness To anything they have said How deep is the hole The inky blackness That dwells within Their stone cold hearts What thought of others Who struggle through life Light a distant pin prick A glimmer of hope Always there Just out of reach Washed away now By the decisions of the chosen ones So deep in the hole They cannot come back Veiled in the ignorance Of the men at the top When my friends When Will it Ever stop. AGL

Do you care for all that you see When you're away Do you wish you were here When, with eyes closed It is easy to dream That you are in Scotland The Rivers run clear But what of our chances Look to your heart When the feelings of warmth Cause you to think With a start A nation so Ancient A Country for so long Now undecided Is freedom so wrong? I am a Scotsman As are my kin I hope I'm alive When Independence begins I'll witness the doubters Who appear scared of the choice When they come to realise They'll begin to rejoice Scotland my Scotland Her Cities Her Glen's The Deer on the mountains Whisky and friends It will not be easy No change overnight But I know in my head Independence is right. AGL

Fire in my heart Music to my ears Words spoken softly Comforting my fears Smoothly she slips Here down to my level Eyes watch expectantly Stomach gently trembles Ferocious intent consumes me But considered in my actions The over spill of passion Despite my attraction We move in closer Now upright The music grabs attention The dance so rhythmic lifts me up The power of human invention We sway The strings come to life Harmoniously satisfied To dance with her Infectious The song drifts through Amid the throng All gripped in concentration The last bar played Only echoing remnants remain Musical Interaction AGL 

We are born We Live We die No real evidence otherwise Within those years that we remain here Decisons made Though not always clear We take a path Despite ourselves With heroic intent Or driven by fear We choose those friends With wholm comfort is greatest Lovers met Vocations tendered Moral judgements Well meant and honourable look after our bodies Care for the vulnerable? From a babe Up to a man We learn to walk We balance and stand Follow on Or lead from the front When the time is right We leap and jump Passionately embracing Something coveted Fall away Become unstable Make mistakes Learn Enable When we get old Darkness and light Life departs Our souls take flight Memories come rushing in The good the bad The uncertain Then with peace close to our hearts We go to sleep One last time What happens to all That we have kept inside Those images vivid The data vast As a

A cloud descends Enveloping me Scared to breathe Except through teeth If I take a gasp I will inhale One hundred tiny Blood feasting beasts It seems that at first They cause me no trauma If I dare to scratch I'll do so forever Although not the most handsome Or pleasing too the eye When they attack my face in their fire I begin to look like Quas-i, This induces ire Collagen implants I don't need them Botox injections around my eyes The swelling is instant the insanity clear When the Midgie starts biting I'm living in hell Voracious wee bastards Appetite large Thank god their not bigger Or they would carry me off Screaming and yelling Up into the sky My skin falls away As they tear me apart No matter how many I kill with a swipe The hungry wee midgie Keeps coming on back There are more of these insects than stars in the sky Within a square metre A galaxy of irritation I could sit down Cur

The embers and remnants Of what has now passed Leave me in turmoil Could this breath be my last?   The stories I could tell you The images, real Living in the moment Born just too feel   I've been too the edges Of all that is dark I've tasted the sweetness As it fell on my lap   Now I am here In front of your eyes Will you express laughter Or drop tears Will you cry?   I am the future I have been the past I recall misadventure I revel in the craft   Of being only human In feeling, in form Sometimes, correctly   Occasionally   Well   Wrong     AGL 

When you noticed I was gone Did you howl up to the moon When you realised I had passed Which memories Were built to last When you see me next Will we embrace After the decades Between then and now Will you know who I am Recognise My now young face I have studied every move you have made Whenever I've been near Rest assured There is nothing to fear Your heart is pure It is so clear My pride rips through Negativity disappears Don't worry now About what has to come When life has ebbed The earthly tide has turned Discomfort leaves A feather like kiss No breath to take No straining heaves Struggling to escape A throat as it quakes I am with you every step I have watched you as you sleep Your dreams are your own Wishes too make The important thing is That you never forget You are who you are because of me I offered you kindness You took it away I offered you love A heart like sponge When sadness caused grief Making up was fun In the su

Beyond the light On the edge of darkness A hope remains The hands of kindness As they reach towards me I feel their comfort Friends for now Tomorrow Sadness The thorns in life that cause my pain Relent, but only When they refrain From offering me The slings that hurt me The tears once gentle Now flowing freely I am I You are you I'll never say words In the hope that I'd wound If you decide to play that way You might die lonely Me I am not afraid The light grows stronger As I open my eyes My wings will lift me Up into the skies The ground below will never scar me If soaring above It cannot touch me. AGL

When I kiss her   I'm in the alley By the Bar-point pub   When I'm with her Passion flows As freely The waters from a flood   Beside her The heat Intense Lying next to her So snug   Her She is the woman Who has given me Her everything and more   When I kiss her A taste Familiar on her breath The sweetness of the heavens An intoxicating drug   She Will be here with me Until the end of time Our bodies may get older But our lives Forever will be Gloriously   Entwined   AGL

 Despite my confusion In spite of myself A respite from those delusions All is not well One short step from the edge of hell Burning amid the fires of fury Deemed guilty By the righteous jury Never again seeing the light of the day Incarcerated Here to stay It all started out so well Mothers love Fathers chest swelled Abandoned by the age of five My only wish A dream  To thrive Here I sit In my eight by twelve Nobody Is entitled to see, inside My thoughts are my own I am in control Simply existing Within this bleak cell I'll be here until my end of days Not one person Visiting Here I must stay The mind of the killer Sees only one truth Images of horror filling my head AGL

Any way the wind blows The direction sent not always known Raise the sail and angle it in Tame the breeze It will take you home All the roads that lead us too The place where two hearts beat in tune Are travelled often Through our lives Just once we hope The love of another To tame the tide Soothing worries of being cast adrift Bobbing Directionless Alone and sad When darkness hides you from a dream Use the light to guide you in A sea of trouble The swell obscures No sign of land Mountainous, thrown Cast adrift, tossed about Use your eyes at the peak of the crest The harbour's safety Haven sent Lost amid life's confusion Mind's that melt Bound by fusion Sorting the pain where loneliness cast you Alone you wander Praying for union It's not easy to be alone Unless through choice you are drawn Finding she who calms the storm Hope upon hope A sweetheart comes Dragging you loveless On to the shore. AGL

Invisible amid a crowd of thousands Obscurity Does her best to hide him No matter how loudly he tries to call out The throng he drowns in Does not hear him Individual All alone In a sea of faces None of them known I'd like to reach out To all of the lonely Show them the world Social acceptance There are those of course Who choose to be alone Living life Never moaning On their own simply strolling It is Ok if that's their thing But what of those that desperately seek The approval of others The hope to meet Kindred in spirit No wish to be meek Social inclusion Minus any confusion Friendly regard The outset Not hard Recognised by many, and more truly liked Approval the drug Allowing them to feel that life is all right Every person that we meet in this short life Is either a comrade Or they may perhaps dislike We cannot be admired or even cared for by all If we were there would be no need to rise to the call Life is not as short as the

I hear they've closed the car-plant down The steel works melted into the ground Unemployment rising fast Acceptable in this Tory land I see the miners were sent home Even though there's still coal to be found Cheaper to buy it from foreign lands Their workers laughing all the way home I applied to go on one of those schemes You know the ones, where you were paid in beans To me, I think its just like school I ended up with all of those fools Who treated me poorly Ignored the rules I watched the UK send a force Thousands of miles To the edge of the world The Sheffield burnt before she died All of those Guardsman duly fried I am not saying that the sacrificed Don't deserve anything but praise The truth of war is hard to bear Those who were bound paid so dear The honour lies with them alone Not in she who sent them down I see they want to send her off Military honours, OH MY GOD! The values held by those who are veiled from the truth that wealt

The mysteries witnessed in a life less ordinary The wonders experienced awe struck, inspiring Whatever you feel has grabbed your attention Moments of brilliance Human invention Something simple That changes the lives Of those who are afflicted Disabled Imprisoned Within shell like forms Eyes peering From inside of a human cell A story written Bringing forth tears An autumnal forest At the edge of your dreams A cold winters day Bathed by a sun That only lights Too low to burn The winds of change are blown in Frost in the garden Glistens Catching your eye In silence you listen We are capable of great beauty Of seeing the good in those driven by duty The nurse who tends Or listens truly She will not judge Caring fully We are human We are man We keep on going Through thick and thin Not two coins for symmetrical rubbing Keep moving on, poverty stricken Do you remember Don't ever forget A sandy beach Playing when young Carrying buckets fr

A smile conceals the ugly truth Deceptive in its candour Protection for the young and fearful A lie to comfort youth The hidden story A tale of woe The tragedies That ebb and flow Pleasure comes at every turn A perfect world Basking under a pleasant sun Gaily skipping Run boy run Why should we as adults fear? The words heard by youngster's Of tender years Careful not to scar and hurt Judging this is very tough The truth will out I recall A phrase repeated over and over Who are we protecting Beneath our lies Saving them from wailing cries If it is broken Difficult to fix Honesty may hold Her own bag of tricks The ticking clock May soothe the pain An umbrella shelters us from rain But only for a while, restrains The wet will hit us Before too long Allow resilience What's right What's wrong The chance to know Is a right indeed Unless the cuts Go in too deep AGL 

Once the broken body has withered and died All of the sadness Tears from your eyes The sorrow has mellowed Contemplative You sigh Realising that the end would surely come The loved ones departed Bathed in the sun Easing the pressures Grief has to offer Time is the healer As said by some author Relationships differ Make no mistake They don't stop being your kin Once life has faultered Remember them fondly The smiles and the laughter Outrageously funny Good with the patter Illness is cruel It steals from our souls Tired and despondent The throws and the rolls Look to the future, I know that it's hard It's easy to dwell In the tough and the sad What would they say if they were here now Those who have gone Beyond Cumulus clouds I love you my darlings I'm watching you still Never anyone's fault In death I'm not ill The pain has subsided Sleep came along Now refreshed h

Lovingly tended Urged to grow Life continues On an even flow A family full Of warmth and caring Hand me downs Bicycle sharing Festivals Not religiously followed Except the traditions Considered as hallowed As we grew up The spots And confusions Hormonally challenged Punk rock and metal There are others you know Who struggled in life Watching drunk father Beating his wife Those who were twisted By life's misadventure Did not have what we had In the deep dark of night No food on the table Empty bottles are strewn Trousers all threadbare Nits in their hair We all seen them in passing Us who were blessed Dishevelled, downtrodden Eyes on the ground I hope now as a parent That I am worthy Of the trust that I have I know I'm no angel Those moments I have But love is the adhesive That will keep me with them  

Blind sided by the reasoning's of fools It is hard to follow The twists and turns My head is spinning With incomprehension The intolerance Bred By excesses of tension A world of sorrow Love your neighbour? Fuck those countries Full of power Murdering thousands every hour I wish I lived in a far off land Untouched or tainted By the hand of man Where brothers all Live just in peace Words unspoken A great relief No hate of those Deemed to be different Religion free No afflictions Truth and honour Is all that's needed No rape, abuse or derelictions Dutiful All are kindred It won't happen I know its a dream The witnessed ideologies Historical non-fictions Taught to us all As we grow older It just goes on Vitriololic Devils spawn Fuck this world! If this it Any moments of pleasure Treasured Yet It's hard to see beyond the filth Robbery, murder Brainwashed hate I want to step off Before time slips by I want to get off  

Thank-you, who ever you are, if you have had the misfortune to read anything contained within 'passaleth'. The only hope that I can take from this process of out-pouring is that you have enjoyed reading even one of my poems.  Would be very interesting to take some opinions from readers, who come from all over the world, as well as the UK, I have been lucky in that; Folks in Croatia, Mongolia, Russia, Germany, France, Brazil, Australia, Spain, China, USA, Mexico, The Ukraine and a couple of others have managed to find the blog.  HOW DID YOU FIND IT?  It is a very great honour to know that peoples from such a diverse selection of locations have read here.  If Possible I would be happy to hear from any one who can tell me how they came to Passaleth. The name Passaleth comes from the town where I was born, and where I lived for over forty years, getting old eh!, Paisley, Renfrewshire has had a few similar names since the twelfth century, passalet, Passaleth and Paisley to na

 Scaremongering by the unionist intelligentsia With little understanding of the smartness of others Tell them that failure is certain Truth is hidden Behind a wealth hung curtain Don't they realise That we are not so daft Can they not see The damage they've done Do all of those people Who keep an ear to the news Not have opinions Are they so easily fooled If I had the choice within reason To opt for self governance In this our great nation Would I not want to read all I can Opinions are gathered Prepared to take  A well informed stance Are we so blind That we cannot see That those who wish for failure Have their own interests to please This country Is Scotland Shout loud and with pride When the answer is out there Do not run,do not hide They will tell you Its not possible Independence will falter Don't listen to them Look after the future Of your son and your daughters Scotland is this And of course that They need the mother Kingdo

After the flood Silt and mud Low-lying households Virtually ruined Pity the sadness Feel for their pain Hoping for some drought time Instead of all this rain The river is rushing Tearing towards the sea Flotsam a soup Trees torn free The waters have settled Subsiding like the tide Build the defences Or is it too late The horses have bolted Right over the gate Is it global warming Or the cycle that comes Once in a while The weather gets rough No compensation For the destruction in sight Spiteful world climate Or was it simply their turn When I see such saturation The rain sodden lands I wonder about helping Or if I even can We are all dry here Up on the hill Drown in a puddle I don't think I will AGL

Uncertain if he's undervalued A man sits watching life go past him Memories of triumphs past Or of misdemeanours committed on a whim Working for the good of health Or sweeping streets a brush in hand Performing on a spotlit stage Or camouflaged you move with stealth What value do you put on those Who pass you daily as you commute Are they just the faceless masses  You're oblivious of what they play a hand in Its dangerous to assume the worst Of people seen at every turn We are valued by those who love us What does it matter if false opinions haunt us The best in life can come your way Don't over try it It's OK Just be true to who you are And remember You can go far A distance measured by all that is good Altruism Dances To its own tune If you choose the path that's wrong The miles you cover Wasted Spurned If you don't see the distortion caused By wicked thoughts Or Acts of wrong If the world is your enemy

Is it the right of every man To consider himself free Oppressions eased by justice No need for locks or keys Freedom is not always physical Interred within a cell Expression of strong ideologies Or of notions strongly held If I am religious Or politicised by my life Agnostic and secular Underfoot, downtrodden The victim hung by strife Am I due true liberty From those whom I count as foe Should I expect to live in peace Tyrants overthrown Or must I simply take it Accepting that this my all Escape an impossibility Until my cards are thrown If I were imprisoned Having committed heinous crimes I'd get what I deserve to get Judged by what I am Is it acceptable? In this our only world That we are unable to help those We witness in distress Imprisoned with impunity Punished by duress AGL

Overdosed on pleasure Pain by my side I sit here by the Irish sea An age spent Watching the tides   The breakers come Amid the flotsam A chill wind stings me Sandblasted But happy   Visibility Hardly My eyes barely see Into the distance Beyond my dreams   Imagination gives me comfort As the winds blow strong Tears flow freely But not through sorrow Blinking fast I rub My forehead,twisted, furrowed   It does not matter That the sun doesn't shine The clouds so low The mists of time   A grey seal Bobs her head To catch some air Barely noticed Unless I strain   Does she watch me Or am I vain She does not feel My winter strains Her comfort Would not sit well To me a human It would be hell   The muddy pathway Through Physgill glen Has brought me here And home again The memories lasting Oh so long Easily found Within my brain   Closing my eyes Where ever I am I see those thin

If appalled by all you see Are you ever compelled to set those visions free Torturous images Helpless thousands Displayed for our viewing On a comfortably sized Wide screen TVs We are told That its necessary To bring it to our conscience The AK47 Or petrol bombs flying Unreal when we are viewing Behind the safety of flat screen glass Thousands of miles away If scenes like that came to our door We would be running scared Hopefully pre-warned When a gunman murders the innocent Or a suicidal bomber Detonates his dreams All of the greenery Of freshly laundered Uniforms Dispersed as they scream A crash from the air Or a motorway pile up Emotionless we filter it Upset We use the remote Some would say That its OK We cannot choose The geographical location Or within which world nation We are, we live, we die in Those who live in distant lands Or who sleep Curled in muddy bomb cratered sands Do not choose either To be considered fodder For badly a