Three Break Up Pieces

Deluded

Of course I didn’t love you,

But I said I did, didn’t I?

And you – loved me. I heard it,

Felt it in your words, felt the words

Seeping in. Dry fibres, thirsty roots of me

Crackled as they all poured in.

Unlikely

Now watch me sink fast –

Buoyed only by hope

And a belief in the unlikely –

Treading water at the best of times.

Still got my teeth, some of my hair,

A hole in my shoe, and no you.

Not You

It’s stretching out away from me,

From what’s not liked,

Fingertip-touching, breathing barely into

Warm, elusive better place,

That I miss.