Memory

~ Memory ~

Age gnaws at life

Without respite

Incessantly; insidiously;

Unnerving in its non–rhythmicity:

Irregular pendulums

Not on clocks

Dump cold milestones:

Another wrinkle;

another grey hair;

Another memory…

I stoked the fire.

A cackling ember broke ranks,

Deluded by escape.

I killed it

As I do a memory.

It’s the pain you see

The memory bears the pain:

It hurts my gut,

my heart,

My eyes…

I up the volume

Let the hi-fi sing

A solemn Herbert Howells

Drowns the memory,

see...

I turn to stoke the fire again,

Staying the blankness.