(First Love is a 500 word flash fiction story) Mary started painting again when she retired to a small village on the coast. She joined a local art group who met in an old chapel. She never saw herself as talented, despite three years at Art College in her youth, but she enjoyed the wayContinue reading “First Love”
Tag Archives: loss
Adoption
She holds a distant memoryof when a heartbeat matched her own.A summer secret locked inside,a child barely known. A small, now faded picture holds,a truth in grey and white.A daughter held for one short day,one silent tear-torn night. To give a life, to hold a lifeto bear but never see,the future that the world might hold,for theContinue reading “Adoption”
You left
You left cold sheets one side of our bedA book laying open, partly readSilences, where once we talkedGrass now growing, where once we walked You left a picture of when life was brightThe shape of your body when I held you tightYour touch, your laughter, your every wayThe colour you cast on the greyest dayContinue reading “You left”
No point
There is no point in travelling, when you’ve no place to be. No sense in searching, when your heart cannot see. And no doors will unlock, when you don’t have a key. There is no point in sowing, where love cannot grow. No questions worth asking, of a life you can’t know. And no reasonContinue reading “No point”
The one that I love
You are the guardian ghost in my dreamsYou hear the sound of my unvoiced screamsYou are the pair to my single gloveYou are the one that I love Your loss is the fear that keeps me awakeYour absence the cold when I swim in a lakeYou are the songbird to my one note doveYou areContinue reading “The one that I love”
