DAVID R MELLOR

Born 1964, (Liverpool, England) difficult birth, didn't find my voice until my youth. Years of thinking I was nobody and treated as such. However, hit the paper papering over the scars. Found understanding and belief through words. I have been published and performed widely from the BBC, The Tate, galleries and pubs and everything in between. 

My poems autobiographical, others topical and several my take on life. Hope you enjoy reading as much as I have enjoyed writing. Please feel free to share your thoughts on links below.

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                  This Life is Scaring The Life Out of Me 

This life is scaring 
The life
Out of me

Whether it’s the neighbour banging
Or a bomb on the road

This world is
Taking the life
Out of me

Droplets of tears flow
From the screen
Whether from Pakistan 
Or Paris 
And all places in-between

This world
Is scaring
Life out of me

                       Look at the stars

They abuse and titillate and make us
Think “what the fuck”
We follow their every word
And photo shoots
Bigger than Jesus and Allah combined

These stars and celebries
Mingle like trash in our minds

Bieber posted farting
Kylie looks a bit tired
Knightly lost a bit
Cowell put a few pounds on

And we bask in this insanity...
Buy copies of “Hello”
When we should be saying “Goodbye”
To these no marks
Has beens

And celebrate
The real celebrities...
You and
Me


                     YOU STOP TIME

Time heals
Time kneels
Too quick
Too fast
Too slowly
Over painful moments
Quicker…
At the moments
We want to last
It opens the day
And closes our eyes.
And I’m happy at 
Every beat of our day
And the moments
Spent…
In your eyes
 
 
                                  our mourning fate
 
We grieve like melted snow
Nothing to hold on
And they will never know
How the warm tears gathered
On our mourning fate
To repeat this sad snow storm
On each and every face


Time wasted, time wasted, time wasted me

I didn't realise how bad life could be 
Until I realised I was me
Naked in front of the mirror
Bulges where there shouldn't be 
Time wasted, time wasted, time wasted me
I didn't realise how quickly the clock of time could 
Cover me, leave me, breathless, and not
how it should be
Me up a tree
Me with you Carl creating Marvel figures before tea
Time wastes, time wasted, time wasted me
And you my father and mother feckless and insecure 
Gave me a back bone of a cripple always to spend my life on the bottom of the sea, for sure
Time wasted, time wasted, time wasted you and me