Relatable Sin – Written Tuesday 20th May 2025 (aged 50)

Relatable Sin

We have been broken
by not early on
finding a wife,
one that was
a trick or two.

Now I watch
as they post
early 90s pictures,
where their life
does not shift,
and I wonder
if anything
was ever new.

We have been broken
by not early on
finding a husband.
There he is now,
on the drive,
and mortgage-free.
He stands
with his wife,
wearing the same smile
as they did
in 1993.

Their life
is wall stencils,
gin,
garden rooms,
garden bars,
and an avoidance
of all relatable sin.

How did they survive
all this?
How did they not
question
or down in those endless –
twenty something lists?

We have been broken
because when we were young
we were un-oiled –
but tightly coiled springs
because we had stupid dreams —
and we dared to wish.
but we got lost in our insecurities
and in the lines and words of our lists

James Garratt – Tuesday 20th May 2025

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