at #stockholm the lady

this is where

i’m my best me

and when that happens

is when you leave

and go forward

not backwards at all

and review

what’s happened

and make sure no fall

before the pride

of hubris said

or deeds of foolish

foolish bread

because now it’s time

i found a new personal

to match the business

and the professional

and it will surely be

as you can all see

in #stockholm found

that one day

where this one day

it shall happen

when at the slightest

drop of hat

and more than this

and more than that

i find another person

natural to here

who shares exactly

what i now share with you:

my place and space

is no longer where i was

but has wondrously

become precisely for me

where now i have gone

to stockholm my home

in the strangest of ways

atop it’s true

the Kulturhuset Stadsteatern

of powerful offering

and even greater return

for this is what

an arts-based thought

brings back to us all

as always it ought

in times of teaching

and should and would

and taught by chalk

and never bored

it’s clear by now

and oh how oh how

that where i now am

the best i can be

is beside a new lady

of just fabulous integrity:

#stockholm the lioness

and #stockholm

those lions

and #stockholm the wise

and #stockholm

the pride

and how we were

haughty

and sometimes

quite naughty

but always wanting

in the end

to bend the truth

of life to rights

because here

in this place

i mean i mean

the #sweden i know

everything seems

something

quite slow

and yet

with this supposed

caution

i realise

with real pleasure

that this ain’t

any precaution at all

but rather the sign

of a wisdom so tall

and so it is this

and so it’s been that

and finally

my lady

i found you once more

like rites of other times

of liffey rhymes and stuff

it’s clear that it’s changed

and is now

much more than enough:

the love of true human

for true human atop

the Kulturhuset Stadsteatern

of perspicacities fine

and true veracities grand

where now i sit

happy and content

knowing that soon

i shall rend the world

separate

and differently too

in both the work

and private spheres

for this is now

and this is here:

the love of life

and the love of weird

where all of us find

out of our minds

which sometimes dark

listen out

for that which harks

and so is all we need

it’s true too

to do so good

with flowers bright

as shining would

where our futures

shifting

lift us that soon

as that

which once terrorised

no longer smacks

of high noon

but rather of truth

and those matters

which forsooth

make it right again

to smile straight up

at man and woman

and of genders-all

and funerals

not appalling any more

but simply marking

the rightful passage

of an existence

well spent:

well spent i say

as you and me

once deep believed

could easily be

(and maybe yet

find clearly done

as song be sung

and rhymes be rung)