Even on calm days
Out of deep blue, waves wash in
Power diminished
~
CLP 20/09/2020
Tag: Memory
On Pain xii*
Is my name Thomas?
I had to be there, feel it
The absence of Love
~
n.b. *Alternative title, ‘On Stupidity’.
CLP 04/09/2020
On Pain vii
I pass through a dream
You speak gently. Everything
is not as it seems
~
CLP 01/09/2020
On Pain vi
And so, how are you?
Words tumble from the heart’s depths.
Right question, wrong time.
~
CLP 01/09/2020
On Pain v
Do you remember
The constant agonies
Treated by endless supplies of morphine
Or is all forgotten?
~
n.b. To obliterate pain through (necessary) medication do we risk also losing our memories?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4326982/
~
CLP 19/08/2020
On Endings (viii)
As the curtain falls
Amidst cheering and clapping
Memories diffuse
.
CLP 23/06/2020
