Mel From Melbourne - Music & Words

  Hypervigilance & OCD Is a brutal combination  Please remind me I have it pretty good xx Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2025.

  Prayer: Forgive me The chip on my shoulder xx In Jesus name, Amen Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2025.

  Slogan Bogan Achronym Stackronym As the saying goes “A bogan with a library card is dangerous.” Bogan = sacred human, gifted & intelligent, disrespected & denied education. “Will Craig please report to the school office immediately!” Just when you’d got him settled. xx Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2025.

  Babel is beautiful   Covid really hurt Dad & me I was prevented from visiting him for two of his twilight years in Aged Care Which I do understand   Anyway, With his dementia By the time I finally saw him He’d deteriorated a good deal & death seemed to be approaching He was basically non verbal by now This dedicated ex-priest, school teacher & poet   One day at a visit soon after He seemed really ‘down’ He managed a couple of abortive monosyllables Over a few hours He seemed ‘not really there’ & then stunned me   He uttered “suic” I was shaken I thought my meditative father had finally lost out to despair As in “suicide”   For the next few days at work Teaching, following on from my father I had difficulty focussing & the word stuck with me Always in the back of my mind For his remaining 2 bedridden years & through the days of deep grief I received for him his death as...

  ‘Chewin the fat’ with Helen of Troy (after Derek Walcott)   My dear, It seems we’re on different trips t o one another I acknowledge that you’re in an immense amount of pain for horrors beyond language & I sympathise with you, I really do If you wanna talk as friends let’s talk, I’m a good listener, I believe in peer support  I’ve done a lot of therapy, I’m good on the human heart, I’m not squeamish  But kindly don’t get angry at me, f or existing I’m as good as you are I have a right to be here, a s you do If you wanna talk, let’s talk But no projecting You & me are not responsible FOR History beyond our control We’re responsible TO it & conscious in the day xx     Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2025.

  Overwhelmed with poems to write & anecdotes, told by many (sometimes competing), voices I proceed: I can't remember much my mind is congested I feel, as I've said, overwhelmed I must turn to my ancient heart It quotes from my brother mentor Dr Robert Wolfgramm: "Brave ones have lived Martyrs have died" Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2025.

  ‘Spirit heart’   Today I went to church For the first time since the divorce It felt good Healing Like coming ‘home’ Whatever that means One day all nations Will worship together Attending one another’s Sacred ceremonies All is welcome     Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2025.