• I’m not bad

    I am not a bad person,
    Who decides a bad person?

    I don’t care what you think ordinarily,
    But you think me a bad person,
    And I care if you think that.

    Our egos are balloons that float above our heads,
    And we drag our baggage,
    those canisters of helium,
    behind us.

    I made a small action,
    Which makes me feel a villain,
    My balloon deflates, falls,
    I am a bad person.

    I identify as a good person,
    I need that validation.

    “At my core I was always rotten”

    A few days pass,
    I find some more helium,
    My balloon floats again.

    “At my core I was always clean”

    I say,
    To hell with the balloon,
    Let it fall, let it float,
    Let it go.

    Hell with the balloon,
    But

    it’ll always be there until my dying day.



  • frivolous things

    The blunders of man will end with me.

    Oh the frivelous little things you say, darling, you simply must write them down! Write, write, write away my little turtle tart.

    I am a conceited tart! A conceited tart!

    Oh you do worry so, oh you simply do worry so. Don’t worry! Why worry?

    A conceited tart I say, woman!

    Woman? Oh my, don’t talk dirty.

    A conceited tart, that looks a treat but turns to sourdust in the mouths of anyone but the tart.

    A tart with a mouth? Well I’d gobble myself up.

    Yes that’s precisely the point! I’d gobble myself up into oblivion! Oblivion. Where I will drown in my own seed.

    Oh you do talk salaciously when I’m trying to gather up your self confience. Quite salacious.

    Far from salacious, it will be a catastrophe of megalomanic proportions.

    Such words, such interesting use of phrase, you belong on the stage!

    No the stage will be my undoing. You think me a mess now, wait until I hear an audience groan when I step on stage. It will unwind me, my spool will runeth over.

    Okay, so why won’t you write. You shan’t have to show it to a soul.

    I have learned no lessons in my life, all the great writers in the world come with divine writing forged in the fiery torments of strife.

    Now that’s a bit too wordy but you could always get an editor for a second opinion of your writing.

    I know writers who won’t show anyone a thing and you only know they’re writers because you see them on the blue bird complaining of the block.

    On the blue bird? Such fanciful phrasing.

    Stop complementing me! Stop it! I can’t bare it! I’m a frivelous little man with frivelously little to say.

    You seem to be dreadfully afraid of yourself, of becoming a sort of narccisus. I don’t see that in you at all.

    Ah no, but In my mind, I see thoughts that compare, that judge, that raise myself above so many.

    That can’t be true. You belittle youself too much out loud. It can even get a little embarassing.

    Ah, it’s manipulation! I preempt any criticism! To be my own worst critic is my only respite.


  • a muddle is my mind

    a muddle is my mind
    filthy water to the brim

    thoughts, slop
    mouth gushes

    toes wet, legs jelly
    slip, fall upwards

    crossed eyes, lids tight
    vision scattered polka dots

    when can i be
    better not this or this

    lips, smile, eyes bright
    a wave hello

    why cant i be
    that and not this


Hello! I’m Tom (he/him), based in London, UK. I write prose & poetry, also some small reflections I want to share. Enjoy ๐Ÿ™‚

I have a Youtube channel where I post creative things sometimes.