David R Mellor - Poems

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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Just a bit part in life’s big movie screen
 
Do you remember getting lost?
On the path you never took
Spent a life time being a stranger and always forgetting to return that look
 
Always a second behind that big break
Moving scene
Just a bit part in life’s big movie screen
 
When all were gathered to be cast in their part
Dentist, doctor, perfect father
You forgot your part 
 
Fluffed the lines,
 Stumbled and broke down
Ran down countless alley ways screaming in the dark
Hitting the pillow
Chatting to the demons within
 
Cursing the day
you.....
 let those
Bastards in
 
 
 
As I sit here smoking my cigarette (knowing I will never die)

As I sit here smoking my cigarette...
I realise I will never die
because, I have never lived
never breathed in the air of a new day
without attaching the exhaust to it. 
Never tasted a kiss
anew (anew anew FOR GODS sake, let us be seated)
always tinged with sadness and regret
like the parting from you mother (BLAME BLAME just open the wine)
does she wish I was another
 
as I sit here
with the years
and misplaced, possibilities, keys, coins, tears
betting slips, odd socks and love letters, ripped in shreds
I realise… that I actually died a thousand times
each chiseling a line
on my furrowed brow
 
As I sit here smoking
My last cigarette.
 
                 Dating in a State 
I’m hanging around on a dating
In a state
Keyboards covered in tobacco, crisps, sticky with beer
Telling someone I like to climb mountains,
I’m calm and sensitive and in control
But I’m typing... words… I can’t… see
 
And I’m starting to spill truths
 
“Divorced.” “Kids.”
 
“Oh.”
 
I like betting, drinking, smoking, doing most things to stop me thinking or feeling
 
“Mmm.”
 
Kids miles away and I’m up in the air.
 
………..
 
Are you still there?
 
 
                  Sea and Know 
I look around myself
Never spending much time in...
Easier to cast my eyes
Than knowing how I got to this place that I take in
 
I look around
Sometimes the words lie too much with me
Calmer more relaxed they would take their place
Open doors see a happier side
See my inability to extinguish lies
 
See and know
That you can’t take this picture from me
And God knows you tried
 
Because I have looked deep and around myself
And seen it here and now
That I’m glad to know you.
 
 
Swan Song 
No life is right
No life is wrong
No life is left
With just a swan song
 
Somewhere along the life-line
You woke someone up
You made someone happy not fed up
And although you let people eat you up inside
You were too young to realise
 
That your life
Is not right
 
Your life
is not wrong
 
Your life was singing,
as it will at the swan song
 
 
 
I wish I could act cool about this
Go back to when my temperature was just above zero
Without the thought of your kiss
Slip back into a cold case
No need to break the iceberg
But my body shifts to your embrace

I don't wish to act cool about this
I want to race down platforms
Stumble over words
Let my mind trace over your body
look at you lost for words

time ticks against us
 wasted in knots
  and there's always a good reason for us to get lost
    in a moment, when our mind set cools down,
      and the frozen years of longing
        are lost in our sound