Obsession
What am I supposed to think
When I know you will not leave me
What am I supposed to do
When I turn around
And I see you still following
Anyone would think that
You are haunting me
Never letting me go
You make every road seem lonely
Even though you make sure
I am never alone
How did it get so complicated
This was never like you
Or did I just never know
So it looks like
You will always be with me
You have become as unyielding
As this twisting road
Destination to be decided
Maybe we’ll never go home
*****
There is something just so lonely to me about marshland, this in-between place, as if nothing ever finds its rest there, everything constantly shifting.
Whenever I have driven through this place, across the Pevensey Levels, and I have stopped and taken photographs and stood looking at the marshes, I am aware that I am never alone. There is an overwhelming feeling of being watched or followed.
It has always been an awareness that I cannot seem to shake off, and the twisting road across the levels only increases this feeling as it turns back on itself seeking the higher ground through the marsh. I thought that a sunny day might help to dissipate this feeling, rather than being in the mist or rain, but strangely it was even more oppressive, in the warm, sometimes windy conditions on this day in late May.
Pevensey Levels, East Sussex, UK.
I have paired this work with U2’s ‘So Cruel’, as Bono sings about heartbreak and obsession so well.
And if you would like to see more of my work, please visit my website at:
Obsession
What am I supposed to think
When I know you will not leave me
What am I supposed to do
When I turn around
And I see you still following
Anyone would think that
You are haunting me
Never letting me go
You make every road seem lonely
Even though you make sure
I am never alone
How did it get so complicated
This was never like you
Or did I just never know
So it looks like
You will always be with me
You have become as unyielding
As this twisting road
Destination to be decided
Maybe we’ll never go home
*****
There is something just so lonely to me about marshland, this in-between place, as if nothing ever finds its rest there, everything constantly shifting.
Whenever I have driven through this place, across the Pevensey Levels, and I have stopped and taken photographs and stood looking at the marshes, I am aware that I am never alone. There is an overwhelming feeling of being watched or followed.
It has always been an awareness that I cannot seem to shake off, and the twisting road across the levels only increases this feeling as it turns back on itself seeking the higher ground through the marsh. I thought that a sunny day might help to dissipate this feeling, rather than being in the mist or rain, but strangely it was even more oppressive, in the warm, sometimes windy conditions on this day in late May.
Pevensey Levels, East Sussex, UK.
I have paired this work with U2’s ‘So Cruel’, as Bono sings about heartbreak and obsession so well.
And if you would like to see more of my work, please visit my website at: