Shades of Gray

By CJ Mulcaster

Love, despair, joy and pain, life is a journey filled with a range of emotion, the strength of which turns moments into memories. To paint a picture of these using the medium of words and invoke a response is the poets craft. If the following touch you in any way, help you view the world from an others perspective, give birth to tears, life to smiles or simply entertains then I have succeeded in my task.
Special thanks to Paul Mckeown for supplying a lot of the photos, a man with a dream who created a realityvery proud of you chop.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Jan 29, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504996990

CJ Mulcaster

Born in Middlesbrough in the North East of England, the son of Francis Mulcaster and Eileen McGee. In 1990 he and a friend opened Steel City Gym, with no initial budget they created what at the time was the largest hardcore gymnasium in the area which still thrives today. His work as an engineer has taken him around the world from Vietnam to China, Burma to Kazakhstan, coming into contact with various peoples and cultures helping to shape his thoughts and beliefs. In 2007 he moved to Thailand immersing himself in the culture of the ‘Land of Smiles’. The proudest moments in his life were the births of his two sons, Christopher and Louis. The most difficult decision in his life was to live without his family. His saddest moment was the death of his beloved father, and his greatest achievement was learning to forgive himself for his mistakes.

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Published by AuthorHouse 03/19/2016

ISBN: 978-1-5049-9698-3 (sc)

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Contents

Come walk with me

I Will Remember You

Take Me To The Zoo

All That I Have

A Step Inside

Angel in my Midst

Gods Seed

Don’t Cry For Me

Elaine

Good Morning Kanbauk

Since You’ve Gone…

Trust Issues

The Gift

Stand Alone

Mad Cow

Forgotten Youth

Five twenty five

Hurry Up

Coal

The Casualty

The Final Step

Little Star

Dream Lovers

To Boldly Go

Waiting…

Superwoman

When I was a lad

Final Gaze

Forgotten Soul

Touched By An Angel

Genetic Disorder

Heart and Soul

Unseen

Heaven on Earth

Sorry

Virtual Reality

Broken Heart

Illogical

Lonely Nights…

Nostra-Mamas

Final Sunset

Nursey

Perfect Moment

Heavens Touch

Sometimes…

The Stumblybum

Can You Hear It?

If I Could…

Inner Wisdom

You Did not Hear

What’s Wrong With This?

Breathe

Who Are You?

Angel

P.M.T.

Once more

The Emptiness

The Tiger

Depressions Cure

My Mother

My perfect you

Inner Pain

The dawn

A note on life:

Come walk with me

Hollow again as night now creeps

Upon this soul who never sleeps

Languishing in this loneliness

Whose chill winds even now doth press.

And evermore will scorch a heart

Eternally forced to live apart

Crying out in tortured plea

Won’t you please come walk with me?

I Will Remember You

When my eyes possess no more

The sparkle of their youth,

And shadows amass around my thoughts.

If one memory alone I am allowed to keep…

I will remember you.

When radiance of life is done,

And done too are all my dreams,

Like treasures banished to an ancient crypt.

If one vision alone I am allowed to see…

I will remember you.

And when too my body lay

Amid the mists of that eternal Styx,

Before a penny piece the