I go there
I go there
I end there
I end there with you
I smile
I laugh
Also I cry
I end there with you
I had to be alone
Life was too too intrusive
But I like your picture
I always go there with you
Most days I would try to write a poem; it is a practice, as I suppose is meditation, or smiling, or watching the world go by
I go there
I go there
I end there
I end there with you
I smile
I laugh
Also I cry
I end there with you
I had to be alone
Life was too too intrusive
But I like your picture
I always go there with you
A sink
With a mirror
Another mirror
For make up
One wall of wardrobes
One with a full length mirror
A bay window
To one side of the bed
A Mark Rothko print
On the opposite wall
Above the king-size double bed
A row of cupboards
All of this for certainty
Among the uncertainty
Outcast
I have cast myself out
And I am slowly forgetting
How to reopen the door
Bitterness
Helps me to be bitter
Humour
Helps me to smile
Happiness
Follows swiftly
As I sit, secure
In my meditation chair
I started writing
Seriously
At the same age
That Shakespeare died
We were both fifty-two
He was a Stratford-On-Avon
And London lad
I have travelled further than he
All the counties of England
As well as many European cities
Have felt my footsteps
Also the line of my pen
But can I be certain
That he had not been there
Before me
Every girl
Needs a name
As she becomes
Woman
One or two
Would do
But neither
To be honest fit
So take time
Search high and low
Hither and thither
Until you fall firm