Showing posts with label sad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sad. Show all posts

Saturday, 29 August 2020

Holding On

 A 2020 poem



Holding on

With a vice-like grip

To every last shred of human dignity

As it departs

Piece by piece


The forgetfulness

The vomit she sits in

The yellow stain of wet appearing

Ringing the bell

Falls asleep


Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

https://pixabay.com/photos/dependent-dementia-woman-old-age-63611/


Friday, 3 February 2017

Poor Heart

A poem from 1991

I’m just a small heart
but I’m used to pain
I beat too fast
too often
too clogged up with cholesterol
dressed as infatuation.

Chasing after the wind
in the lungs.
Coming
going
coming
going