Wednesday 4 January 2023

You have already left
Your mind is on someone else,
My heart was just a paperweight
Holding you in place.


LH 2022

How would you describe me?

 
You asked me
If I was a morning person
But I don’t know what type
Of person
I could be with you
I could be an afternoon,
And all night long
Kind of person.


LH 2022

Tuesday 27 December 2022

Some day our bodies
Will become one with the earth 
So we can regrow 
As trees or flowers
Or blades of grass
On a mountainside
Right next to one another
Swaying in the breeze. 

Saturday 24 December 2022

I feel like a cheap souvenir
that you collected on your travels,
you can pick one up anywhere.


LH 2022

 

You held onto my heart for years
like a security blanket
it must have brought you comfort,
hauled around until I fell apart
then you outgrew me 


LH 2022

Friday 16 December 2022

There will be a memorial service

I didn't expect
The nurses
And countless other
Grieving mothers
My anguish mirrored
In the faces of strangers

I didn't expect
A tiny white coffin
Carried from a hearse
To a freshly dug hole in
The ground
I was horrified

I didn't expect
My legs to hold
The heavy burden I carried
On that wet November morning
I didn't expect
This pain

I didn't expect the anger
That followed
Jealous of every
Expectant mother
The silence from others
Reluctant to comfort

I didn't expect
The sadness, that followed
I just couldn't speak
Grief is hard to swallow
I thought I would shatter
Into a million pieces

I didn't expect
In that little room
Our world to cave in
When she parted her lips
And out those words slipped
I'm sorry there's
No heart beat. 

LH 2022

Wednesday 30 November 2022

Everytime


Time is unkind
To me

It stretches
Then catapults me back
when I least expect

A song or a scent
Takes me back
When I try so hard
To forget the past

Time moved on
When I wanted it
To stand still

Each second now
An eternity
To live

Time heals
Time flies
Don't waste your time

But you invade my mind
There's a reason why....

I think you feel the same as I.


LH 2022


Sunday 27 November 2022

Middle of nowhere

We walked together
But apart
Silence between us
"I'm so sad" I whispered
But my anguish
Shook the trees
And the Autumn leaves
Drifted to the forest floor
I understood their loss

Still...I thought it was beautiful



LH 2022


Saturday 5 November 2016

How could I forget?

You said I was breath-taking
I thought I was just breaking .

LH 2016

Tuesday 4 October 2016

The neighbours cat

The cat with two names
regards me intently
with his huge reflective orbs

He sees the invisible me
the one others don't see
I have become his shadow 

It's something that neither of us understand
Or want to

The sadness will try to settle in his bones
like the longest winter day
stretching on forever

His dark brown fur 
flecked with grey
comforts me with every stroke

We are alike
timid with claws

He doesn't belong to me
he is someone else's, 
though he thinks he is not

And so he'll leave someday
when he thinks I no longer need him
He'll stretch and look back once

And I'll never see him
Again. 

LH 2016