Shambling down the narrow lanes he carried his world, broken long ago by words and shortages and grumbles, daily struggling but friendly encouragers, urging use of drugs and alcohol, shoved him along the paved road that battled to bury the pain and led to a hell where, craving the numbing money, facing the beatings, and… Continue reading Addiction
Month: January 2019
Assault and despair
It wasn’t on purpose, she saw that. It was her fault and she shouldn’t have said it, and now Could her body go on taking the bruising; Her soul the battering, And her heart the fear? He smiled his forgiveness and said he wouldn’t do it again and again and again, But she really should… Continue reading Assault and despair
Death
The impact of death. I cook something tasty most nights, he said, Treats and trials and she sits on my shoulder and tells me ‘You batty bugger!’ You should have chopped and fried til they are soft, and he goes on lightly listening to her cheery censorship which was absent in the old life, but… Continue reading Death
Too Late!
——————————— The flowers wilt on the wracked earth, there are no buzzing bees, temperatures soar untempered, children stare out of slits in curtains closed against the searing sun. ———————————————- It was an emergency, now it emerges change was too late. Nothing growing on the farms where water has not been husbanded. While, in the fields… Continue reading Too Late!