Steven Bruce is a writer and multiple-award-winning author. His poems and short stories have appeared in numerous international anthologies and magazines. In 2018, he graduated from Teesside University with a master’s degree in creative writing. An English expatriate, he now lives and writes full-time in Poland.

Motto

In the shadowed depths
of this heart and mind,
a song still rises, despite despair,
from this golden canary of mine.

Midnight Verse XLII

The heart unloved:
a cold, empty night
longing for its moon.

Midnight Verse XLIII

FOR JASON MATTHEWS

The tides of time
will sweep the truest of friends
to separate shores,
but blood will forever reunite
in the heart.

Treasure

Please, plunder my wallet,
take the watch, the phone,
even the fillings from my teeth,
but for the love of all that’s sacred,
leave me my books and solitude.