it’s hard to make a change

to take a different view of life,

change ways which are

second nature, expected and

have become your norm,

when others think you strange

perhaps in a crisis, even odd,

they like you as you are now

and are concerned for your

change of values, new direction

or the way you think,

so be patient, tread softly

the best changes go unnotic...

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I watch you, busy

cleaning a floor that

doesn’t need cleaning,

I know you didn’t sleep

last night, I did, that’s

how I know, we’ll go

at lunchtime and say

goodbye to her,

neither of us need it

but rituals are rituals

we’ll soon be back home

with nothing left to

be sad about, 

our lives go on

together

© Grham R Sherwood 04/25

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you say the words

those killer words

that burst out

looking for a fight,

words that cut me

to the core,

words that bring

hurt to the boil,

tears to flow that

splash my shoes

and make blood flow,

and after as you

tend my wounds,

repair the damage

force the jinn

back in his box,

you’ll look at me

squarely in the eye

and mutter sorry

sorry...

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it should herald a warning,

I think only of marmalade

as the colours ripen before

my eyes, the backlit trees

on fire on the horizon,

my city wakes at 5.am

© Graham R Sherwood 04/25

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