For your safety

For your safety,

Do not run,

Do not skip,

Do not cycle,

Do not skate.

Walk:

Preferably in single file.

Conform.

Try not to look.

Try not to hear.

Try not to touch.

In fact,

Just try not to act too much

Like

You're alive.

M. McMurray 13/8/2013

On the move

They come and they go:

Never quite here, never quite there,

But always on the move.

Some faces worn and tired,

From feet that have walked too long.

Others betray a little smile

As they remember journeys done before:

Not the first time they've walked this path.

Others, with the next generation in their hands,

Smile as their journeys are shared.

But nobody quite stays where they are.

This is a moment in time,

Trapped as though in a jar

Like a fly

Eager to move on

Because they're never quite here,

Never quite there,

And so they come and go.

M. McMurray 13/8/2013

Solitude

Caillte

Lost here with thoughts of wind,

And words floating,

Swimming.

The world passes by.

This is the place where it pauses:

A refuge from the storm.

Here the wind slows

Until it stops and is no more.

A place where I can watch and wonder:

Caillte until the wind starts again.

M. McMurray 13/8/2013

* Caillte is the Irish word for 'lost'