Tag: bloomsday2023

the first year i figure since twenty sixteen
when my birthday will be celebrated 
in a land quite distant 
from that which once i loved 

the first year in seven 
when i shall be in the presence 
of people who actually like me
instead of me pursuing foolish unreciprocation

the first time in so many times
when my rhymes shall describe
what i need not what i want 
because what i want is now what i need 

this year my birthday 
on the 16th of june 
shall be celebrated in territories 
distant from its literary source 

being that the land of course 
of hugely cultured people
who bear grudges fabulously 
and never forget what must never be forgotten

and so this right now
and this oh how
is what i see 
as path to tread 

because i realise as we all must do
how life is short and you must go 
to where people choose 
despite their lack of knowledge of you 

to serve and protect 
such interests as #sweden has
and scope me a better way of being 
without that goddamn stupid strife

a land where buses actually serve a purpose 
and people speak with sharp intakes of breath 
as their language helps their voices dance
on their bilingual vikingness

and in their careful observations 
they reach conclusions
about a me i never saw 
until the day i trod their shores 

and discovered a different way of one 
where failure no longer defines my truth  
and chances of victory 
begin to beckon and call 

out loud and so proud 
and so wise and so grand
that only a man like me
may ever forget the blessings he received

because once upon a time it was 
you loved an impossible love it's true 
and still it's true that still you do 
but time is running fast and out 

like sandy beach
and dying whale 
and hugely massive human fail
and knowing she never loved you ever 

and knowing her country 
did everything it could to destroy your all ...
and so seeing the fact 
that this violence against your person 

had always been the aim 
from the very very start
it's time to say goodbye to all that hope
and build your new futures

on women and men 
of fabulous compassion and quite other ken:
people who saved your life quite literally 
and gave you reason 

to continue your duel with mighty pen
against the swords of her countrymen 
and sometimes countrywomen too
as you write to make a rightful #whirled 

based on tech of human shape 
where you find a body who really does
love you as you awake from sleep
and where beautiful lips

kiss you alive each day 
and words of kindness
make you relive the things you never had 
as if indeed you'd always enjoyed 

and it's only left for me to say 
that today's the day my bloomsday birthday 
moves its ass sooo very fast 
from its country of birth 

to the country where i now want to reside 
and find so deeply another woman who might 
love me as fine as i clear do wish 
may be the beginning and end of it all when we must 

without the stealthy pall of horrible horrible spies 
that hurt me so futile and evil and cruel 
and then terrible wild
and then quite beside 

and then again 
and then like this
left me quite without my self 
and left me even lacking all sense 

that good was meant 
for me and mine 
when rhymes burst that time truly into flower 
on bloomsday two thousand and sixteen's hour

written by mil williams, 18th may 2023, ellesmere port uk