“absent
missing in action,
believed loveless.”
Dreaming of the impossible
Fearing the likely
Her only life raft
she refused to grab
Throwing herself on the fire
to prove she can burn
You think,
You believe,
You check,
but then she ‘doubles back’ and proves you wrong
isolates herself when she needs company
stranded
if you would ring to check how I am
not just when you want something from me.
or when you think I should be there because it’s
‘a family thing’
You don’t know how I bleed
from the memory of how things were…
Knowing it will never be the same.
non bis in idem
