Do you remember
that sunny day
the gentle smile,
a black dress
discreetly surrounding it,
the words that never came about
the absence of a stance?
It was not style
wearing that dress
stepping back from all these human becomings;
lust
reclaim
love
regret.
It was a little pain
as much as a soul can bear daily
for a body to wake and walk;
it was a little death
inside
confronting the demise of life.
It was a little black
so the day would be retained
lived and put away.
I remember you that day
your little black smile
another demise across the table,
perhaps not that great.
Live the day and put it away;
nobody wants to recall
all those they knew
but couldn’t speak out,
those black veils
enclosing us
grasping with politeness
the remaining aura of absence.
19
May 2017,
Dundee.
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