The Havisham House
After you left, I grew old in a day.
I wore black shoes with a Velcro strap
And sat all day, a book on my lap,
Looking out on a world that had all gone grey.
How do you live when life has gone away?
Bare existence toppled my dream towers,
Arranging flowers in a house without flowers,
Looking back on memories, only memories, long gone astray.
Do you remember the autumn? Oh the autumn
With rusty leaves ready to be kicked
And concers, like treasure, longing to be nicked,
And adored and hoarded and soon forgotten.
Or that long, long summer by the sea?
An album of memories of holding you tight
And you, smiles for the camera, looked just right,
Such a beautiful summer just we two, we three.
Why can’t I accept that winter came too soon?
With you and our son, Rest In Peace,
For you and our son, life has ceased,
And all the cats in the county cried to the moon.
Here stands my house, an empty jail
And an empty woman on an empty shore,
Filled with ghosts dancing on la Place de la Mort,
With a life so large, what can we do but fail?
(2014)
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