"Never Again Will I"

Monochrome reality

bleeds technicolour dreams.


She feels them all,

the separate hurts -

the absenses -

as one.


The failures.

Some were hers,

and some were theirs.


Some friends abandoned her,

while still alive -

and others died.


So tired:

She has tried to analyse

each situation,

in her mind.

She has written poetry,

and cried -

and walked, little and often,

when her health allowed.


And her mind is a drawer that will not close,

jammed with words

that they said to her.


Left with the so-called "reasons and seasons", and

a lyric that should have been

never again will I "find

someone like you."