David Agnew

Poems from "Walking into Eternity" by David Agnew

Aunty Penny

I see her face, I hear her voice
She says the words she said before.
I feel their force as I did then,
Their power reaches to my core.

The words seem harsh, but said with love.
Its love which carried them so deep,
Within my heart I know they're true,
They are the words I need to keep.

Strange now, when I remember then,
I hated her so much that day.
The passion that those words aroused,
And yet they would not go away.

 

Addiction

I hate this fucking illness.
hate it with a passion.

Why must it
be so random
in the way
it picks the lives
which it chooses
to destroy?

But other illness
does that too.
This one's such
a fucking bully,
that's what I really hate.

Why must it pick
out those -
vulnerable,
beautiful,
talented,
sensitive,
squash their potential,
waste their lives
and kill them young?

Why can't it kill
the bastards too?
I suppose I know it must.
but every now and then,
what occurs to me
is that its them-
the bastards -
who survive.

Perhaps that is
the reason
that its me
who's still alive!

 

• "Walking into Eternity" is an A5 (148mm x 210mm) publication
• 56 pages in total 
• Soft bound laminated cover
• £8.45

 

Authors

“Walking into Eternity” is David Agnew’s first publication from Flux Gallery Press. Its main themes draw on his personal inner journey from addiction to sobriety which took place against a background rooted in Belfast and the Northern Ireland of the 1960’s. David is now resident in Leeds and works in the area of therapy and healing within the further education field.
He is also involved with a number of poetry groups in Leeds and the surrounding towns of Ilkley and Otley and Bradford. In his classes David explores not only simply elements drawn from his life experience but also discusses the idea concerning the power of poetry or the written word to re-shape ideas and re-build broken lives.
More recently, he has introduced the interpretation of visual imagery into his classes.