Speech Therapy
You wrote on the keys of my piano
“there is lost, there is gone, there is none”
you painted shells on my back
you spoke,
my ears tear with sympathy.
Your whisper.
My eyes score you once more,
you pull out the sharp
you take in a drag
you dab another long one
you shape another colour.
And fake goodbye.
Yes. You always fake goodbye.
Because this one isn’t done,
unbegun
you have shone
won in my cells
my skin for another, little take.
Wakeful she’ll take you away,
together in TV colour.
Speech therapy
Copyright © Jennifer Ratcliffe | Year Posted 2011
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