ANN, remember now !!!

SHE REMEMBERS NOW

Arguments in the distance.
Books piled high in his study
and the postman delivering more.

He always wanted more time
and there was never enough of it,
never would be again.

The endless loop of her sister
cycling in the close and
the drums echoing next door.

She remembers planning
how to remember, what
she might save from now for then,

remembers realising she does not
want to be here in this place
where they have chosen to live.

She would rather be at home
but this is her home, the now
and the when and the why.

It was nearly a revelation.


© Rupert M Loydell, UK

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