Tuesday 29 November 2022

A bleak poem for a bleak November


I feel like I'm in a hole.

Not whole, I’m torn in half.

There’s a missing piece, like a jigsaw in a charity shop - reused and never new again.

Dog eared at the edges, well loved but they’ve moved on to the next story.

Or maybe I’m on a shelf, an old favourite, waiting to be picked up with a smile… a fleeting moment, transported to when I was shiny with an un-cracked spine.

I feel unseen, invisible; like a picture in an album that’s never opened. 

A has been, a once was, a memory.

Once vibrant and full of colour,

Now black and white I’m duller.

In need of restoration, touch me up in photoshop I’ll be good as new. 

Renewed. Refreshed. Revived. Reborn.

Whole again.

Seen again.

Heard again.

Reborn.