Tuesday, 13 October 2009

Cemetery

I'm not sure if this is finished.   I mean, it obviously isn't finished, it's just a first draft that came into my  head on the way back from taking photos in Brockley Cemetery... but I'm not sure if it should end where it does, or if it needs more.  I had to stop my brain thinking of more in case I forgot it before I could get home and write it down, and by the time I'd put it in my notebook the moment had passed and no more words came.  Maybe I just need to return to it, or maybe it just wants to be small.  I don't know.  Opinions welcome...

he gave me roses in a pot
so that they would stay alive
      but even so      they died
and now the pot is all I've got

perhaps it is a sign
that love     like life      is not
forever       it will stop.
and we're running out of time

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