The Poems of David Garlick
Lonely I sit, my coffee growing cold, amid the clink of cutlery and glass. The constant chatter of others, the buzzing activity of them all is an accusation of me. I, who sit in lonely thought wishing for the happy times, long gone, when family and friends filled my life. No more, now just […]
In hours of need, when all seems lost and troubles mount with crushing force. Remember how our love was born and how it’s grown through many years. Remember happy days we’ve spent, in doing things that we enjoy. And think about the years ahead that will be there for us to share. […]
I love a woman strong and true, who gives her love without reserve. She stands beside me, right or wrong and helps when feeble plans go sour. Our years together seem so short. Yet all my real life she’s been there. To play, to share, to love and bear, the episodes of married […]
Christmas lights in puddles, busy streets, bright lit shop windows, nodding gnomes. Thoughts of home and early happy years – spoilt by the gnawing grind of brittle time, argument, alcohol and senseless hurt. Call through the chilly ether all you want, I cannot hear, my ears are dead to you. For even with nothing […]