Wednesday, 20 August 2025

A Poem a Day (730): In the turnabout (poems from a pub)

 
In the turnabout,
footprints walking blind,
taking their cue from the invisible,
a source with no foundation.
 
You await the uninvited,
take the step they think is slow
when you’ve already appraised it all,
evaluated and relived every detail,
every destroyed element,
your life scratched out.
 
There are things you need to forget,
there are moments you will never forgive.
If a wish was ever made
it was an empty one.
 
If you tell everyone the truth
it’s their failure not to listen.
 
Copyright Vickie Johnstone, August 19, 2025


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