Poem 105

I like the two ways you can read this – that the ‘we’ in the last line represents the approaching end of this relationship or a deeper more general and existential grief about life … title from Tom Scott’s play The Daylight Atheist …

The Weeping Bowl

I made it alright in the morning
but at lunchtime
I had to hold her while she cried

the rest of that day
and the next as well
we took turns
first her then I

we mourned what we never had
that nothing could be right
that we must die