From That Which Comes After

Alexis Pope

If the mourning never ends

There’s a clot to dig
 
Through the ground til my body
 
Changes are made people grow
 
Out of these sweaters another
 
Reason for the fire coated
 
In a light dust from
 
Behind the oven where I lose
 
Touch your feelings as I thought
 
It’s not right anymore and this
 
Is another sad love poem
 
The place I go you couldn’t
 
Follow me to the reading
 
Features I thought you’d find
 
Intrigue or emotional depth
 
Locate you could never
 
Build a sandcastle without
 
Getting in my eyes now
 
Can’t blink it’s almost
 
Time or how much we’ve
 
Develop incurable illness
 
Keep hold my ears until
 
The pain subsides wonder
 
What you feel like if cut
 
Open you might discover

Really had so much to give

Landscapes roll out behind

Me I’m the reason pretty sure

We had as much a chance

Anyone boards the aircraft

Not everything is predictable

Sometimes we can’t get off