We all go away We die one day But not too young please Not too young On your terms Is the preferable option As best as you can As best as you can Not extinguished On another's say Sent there on the decisions of others For betterment? Lest men should faulter Lose some fields Spend more money It's not sarcastic Or slightly funny When the funds for war Would have us imagine That culling is The economical option Not sitting round to discuss the hordes of soldiers Trim the fat From every nation The rank and file are sure A safer workstation Would be better With some weekend fun and recreation War and thunder Takes them away The battle of Ypres The first brigade The London Scots and the Cameron men The Black watch played As comrades died Laments respectful Chests with pride Fingers softly Caress the chanter The boys get by By using banter On every side The sands are mud The mists of time The guardsmen lunge National expansion? Or soci

I love this life Its good to be alive Despite the distractions That lose us sometimes Stressed out by working You just can't decide If it would be easier Just living Unsheltered, outside Chilled in the winter Cardboard no shelter Continuing to grind it out The next day no better Sometimes when working You can leave for two weeks dealing with the pressures The way you know how Off down to benidorm Escape the home town You'll go on a holiday off of west coast of Africa See some old friends You could meet in canaria You might go with your wife Rejoicing in your life You realise quite quickly that Staying on at the factory Paying your way in this sunny weather Is cheaper forever, tacticly Peter and Paul Safe from sneaky robbery You kept your money in the bank Despite all the temptations You found on e-bay It wasn't easy But you survived You might be entrenched With all kinds of debtors Fearfully receiving the red ones demanding Witho

AG Leyden: Walk on by? : Streets washed by pouring rain Gutters try their best to accept the deluge Blockage upon torrent Sound, gurgles, lapping, dripping ...

Hello my auld mucker How have you been Do you still visit your local Mess around on the microphone Karaoke fun Bounce around like a maniac Still drink like a fish Or have you taken up running Or is it time to relax Are you still as rambunctious considerate and funny Or are you now boring Wider than before Dancing on the telly A quiz show with Bradley You seem to be the person I would have hoped You would have become I could be wrong buddie Its been so bastard long Its been a while matey How's the wife and weans Does your misses care about you As does mine Are the kids a reflection Of the man you have become Hold them close buddie Love them the most I remember our outings Holidays in the Sun Or up in our country Where the clear burns run Where we quenched our thirst quite freely Under the August Sun Carrying packs on our backs Fuck, they weighed a ton We miss those friends we have not seen Ideally we'd be able to see them more But we dri

The purpose of living is to service the riches Pay taxes, insurance money to the witches Who spellbound remind us they are in charge. Reliance in nothing except in the wallets Of the privileged, establishment driven by cash. We cannot step off Just walk away We are hungry, have children Many bills to pay With one hand we are paid In sums worthless to most Then dutifully we pay back The lords who have gold. Live for the moment Die when you're old Scrimping and saving A soulless cheapened bowl Stale bread to live on Mould on our walls The wealthy established will laugh and they'll scoff. Us as subservient will bow and we'll doff Caps that are thread-bare Clothed in rough sacks. Servicing debt A rod for our backs. AGL

Humans All Who walk like us Hateful or loving Petite or tall Kind in consideration Of how others May wish to meet Another person Just like you Caring Altruistic Neighbourly and true Into the world unmoulded Each and every one Designed to learn Instinctively You walk and then you run Cultures bend the malleable mind Into what normalcy states as proscribed We land in communities of diversity In every corner Eyes witness many things Unseen by another in far off lands Who peeks nervously through vertical blinds The biggest cities unclean streets Open expanses out in the fields On the sloping  mountain sides Placid lochs Deserts dry Forests aflame with life As far as eyes can see Some wish they could live in another land Safe and more or less care free As different as the next man As are the roots in every tree It's nobody's fault What happens to you Unless you choose to be wicked Untamed and never bothered by Morality in your being Br

Mine is the flame that burns Fiercely the embers blown by the winds Steadily ignited I'll fight and I'll win The fire will go out of that I am sure The once scorched lands will be free and be pure. The warmth that radiates scorches my soul If I could care for all peoples I'd make them safe in my glow Free from the doom that causes innocence to go As dying in pain they are extinguished  by twisted men's blows Take all the fire let the torches be lit Shining redemption Lead them to flight We don't need religion to know what is right The heat from the fire On the coldest of nights Warms my conviction Parachutes my fall Floating down gently Softly I call Come to my hearth Shelter for all. AGL

AG Leyden: Far away. The fragile heart can never be unbroken... : Far away. The fragile heart can never be unbroken When shattered beyond repair one million tiny fragments destroyed and filled with rea...

Far away. The fragile heart can never be unbroken When shattered beyond repair one million tiny fragments destroyed and filled with real despair Many different reasons a multitude of horrors be it love gone suddenly or a nation that does not care visions of atrocities witnessed and not compared to anything you will ever experience from a comfortable sitting room chair resilience is an easy notion when all you've had to deal with is unemployment or poverty debt or western fails 1st world problems a lack of social care? if I lived in war torn lands i'd roll over and die But only after I'd made my stand hide behind my soft hands the pampered scots heart would break with ease my biggest worries handled, please! no matter how bad you think things are to experience those horrors you'd have to go far drive for weeks in your modern  abundantly available lead free fuelled car tears well up i want to cry when people drown or infants die as

Invisibles Invisible to the outside eye A monster hides behind his lie He maybe looks Just like you and me Hair and skin Smiles and fears You could meet him in a local bar Discuss with him you're dreams Your car The truth of his nocturnal cravings A head removed with skillful shavings. Invisible the saint or sinner The beautiful mind or heinous ripper The poet lord of all his scribbling Looks out from a head that spins with vigour Too pained to gaze for long in the mirror Afraid his words show him to be madder Than the worst of men Insanely driven The monster creeps with agile stealth The carer soothes to give of health In the street passing on Invisibles' behind silent screaming Conceal the facts Whatever they are dreaming Always watching Forever scheming. AGL

A breath of wind. Sails on my neck The hairs stimulated Stand up Erect Visions of murder Flickering pixels Show me that humanity Has lost his way Blindly they follow Just on 'his' say. If you want to see everything Ascend Gain some height Remember that philosophies Are invented, Not always right Magnanamously proclaiming That their diety has power and might. Up on my hill I can see way beyond To the immediate vicinity Where The obvious is formed I witness all things Done in a gods name Those concluded twisted hatred's Used just to blame Righteousness offered As falsely it is claimed AGL

Philosophies, atropies, Items of necessity Willows and meadows Industry and commerce. Our work shy Our bothered By illness and callus The student, the worker The earner The driven Who squeeze every penny From cups never empty The never ending chalice That refills aplenty While the drones collect the scrapings Embittered with longing Diversity And loving Massaging the egos Everything costs. Choices aplenty Necessities abundant Regarded by some As fairly repugnant Employer Provider Bread on the table? I'll work when I can But only if able. It is not my humanity That causes such ferocities It's fiscal and emotional And Economical Often radical But never allowed to simply be Anthropological Water and shelter Shade from the Sun Succulent foods Weans propagated Not chasing a tail As aspirations sail Too fast too catch Human legs are no match If you never stop One day you might drop Lif

in the beginning he says i love you in so many, many ways the caring is an out pouring i'll stay i'll stay i'll stay he'll love her in the morning after a night of sexual fun he will take her out to dinner love her more when they get in. trust is all around them the hook the lure is cast she feels as though she's found him the one, the man, the last she'll love him over luncheon she'll listen as he sings all about his successes what she does for him she'll love him at the wedding smiling like the sun defensive of his honour he is boisterous he is fun she will understand when he tells her that he is interested in her mails the text he heard arriving was it insurance or a pal facebook is a medium he scrutinises with his love you must know my baby in you i'll always trust. the boiling heart evaporates intense and hot to touch sensitive not caring anger is not love each blow she feels delivered with care e

During, I think 2009 or 2010 I was lucky to have taken one weeks annual leave from my job with the NHS.  Since moving to Wigtownshire I had become friends with a group of gentleman, all of whom were older than me, they, like me, enjoy the hills and the freedom that it allows a person, to wander, camp drink? and generally simply be enveloped in natures wonder. Weeks before the week off I had visited a trail that sits above Glen Trool, the walk begins beside Bruce's stone high above Loch Trool and with no little effort leads one up past three Lochs, Loch Valley, Loch Neldricken and Loch Enoch, I believe that Loch Enoch is the highest Loch, not Lochan, in the country. To be so close to Newton Stewart, about 15 Miles, and encircled by Dumfries and Galloway and Ayrshire is brilliant. The Lochs are Located from the Solway Firth in the south to the boundaries of East and South Ayrshire.  A virtual wilderness, not Alaska of course, but in Scotland we value the opportunity to roam

The best I can do will be the worst for you chances I take with your liveliehood will impoverish and enslave you Debtors beware ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ Taxed in too submission on every thing you do on work on food on energy On the breathes you grab For air. On the back of 'his' decision We stepped into the void To appease the union's minions With promises of gold. Scotland oh our nation Seperated from the rest By a thousand years of antiquity By laws and points of view. The angles sought to rule us Forging coins for palms Driven by aspirations By land and feudal arms Considering that their entitlements Were worth much more than yours Now we stand United Our country on the brink Of realising her potential Man No Scotsman should need to think The last chance now approaches Assets hanging on The thread of this unequal marriage Lie withered, torn, forlorn Voting no in the referendum Will strip our souls away Unless your fear is broken

It is not just tears that run from my eyes It is the visions from the USA I want to be blinkered, blinded, hide Blanketing my ears In an euphony of soothing The Sounds reverberating A voice promising all The greatest one Watch Olympus fall Witness the order Made of old Middle class protected Poor Unworthy Call Deaf ears listen to nothing A blind man In his ivory tower The right has it But not the right direction It leans that way That's all. AGL

Positivity explodes from every pore Despite my doubters This year I'll do much more More for others if I am able More for my family Food for our table. Be all Be everything Reach for the star's Grab opportunity When it comes along Don't be fearful of anything If you can't see it It's not there Resolutions are a misnomer Bound to fail unless Heroically striving You can drag your self from bed Failure makes you hurt inside Disappointment is the foe When February roles in Defeated You'll weep inside Lie low Avoid the gaze, the question's About The intentions you shared before So this year I'm not trying to change dramatically My aspirations will be tempered Measured in a way My mind is set to a default I've probably had before Self doubt is now the enemy Belief in me is raw Attraction Is the focus Bring it to myself Ignore the dampened shadows That have me running scared True to me and the possibility That wha