Familiar Pose – Written October 2011 (Aged 36)

Familiar Pose

it was, and is, a familiar pose
one,
that once inspired more delicate prose
squeezing into party clothes
it was a face,
that had once given me a map
with hopeful direction
but now, through space and time
there was no connection

it was, and is, a familiar pose
one,
that once inspired a variety of prose
but that went
not long after it had arrived
when blame was a deadweight
and suffocated hope, once so alive

it was, and is, a familiar pose
one,
that had once inspired angel laced prose
that final flicker, that final light
then, so suddenly, it goes




James Garratt – October 2011


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