A Hand Full of Ashes
Is this for real, I asked myself
and in my sorrow,
despaired both long and hard
because I knew it was ..
Yet still, the gulls,
gargoyles and most of the girls
collectively despised
and frowned down upon me ..
So I bubble wrap
my day and manufacture one
of those false smiles,
that you were most famous for ..
But the wind got
there first and blew them away ..
Long before it caught
like a fire, in the draught of my
late father’s house ..