Love

  • Darling Day 12. Darling Days

    The echo of two hearts drifting down the hall, and all the darling days we skipped arm in arm, like children; no more. All the beauty of our yesterday, I remember you. Fondly, I remember the darling days, and I… Continue reading

  • Darling Day 11. Nan

    She was just one of those people everyone loved. Darling, through and through. When she was good, she was like an orange wind, laced with mint and strawberry sweet. She was kind, but not in a: ‘Hi, how are you?’ sort… Continue reading

  • Darling Day 9: Truth

    Darling diamond, fire within; the birth of home in a burning house of ‘good’ and ‘bad’. Aching truth becomes the darling ever and always. Passionate truth becomes the choice never to hold another’s heart with selfish hands. Continue reading

  • Darling day 8: Milk and Honey Sunrise

    Today felt like a milk and honey sunrise. What is a milk and honey sunrise? I have no idea. But it felt an awful lot like darling to me. Continue reading

  • Darling Day 7. Empathy

    There is not a single person. In this whole wide world. Who will not respond favourably. To empathy. To ‘I know what you think you’ve done. But that story is not you.’ There is not a single person. Who will… Continue reading

  • Darling Day Six. Darling Is The Fall

    She wobbled along, the little darling on wheels. Two wheels (which seemed to be the problem.) Mum balanced her own bike between her legs, guiding her duckling as best she could, until at last: there was flight. As I strolled… Continue reading

  • Darling Day 5: Let It Be Love

    Darling heart, sing sweetly with dreams of the tomorrow sun. Hold me in my broken longing. Balance my soul with a million stars plucked from the eternal night of love. And let him come, dear and darling heart. Steady and… Continue reading

  • Darling Day 4. I Love You Anyway

    Darling is the choice to say My love, I love you anyway. Continue reading

  • Darling Day 2: Darling Is The Dream

    Darling is the dream of waking up beside you, knowing the world is perfectly still for one single breath of mine. And when sleep comes once more, meet me in the sky between us; hold me by that darling river… Continue reading

  • Darling Day 1: Darling Is Life

    Darling is the grace of every whispered, ‘You’re beautiful.’ You melt my soul with those words. Every shimmer of my soul, you melt it. Darling are the minutes next to the moments that I sit alone and realise…I’m happy. Happy… Continue reading