It was slow
Black and brown became grey
Laugh lines became deep creases
march became a tread
And you became alone
Two became one
A hollow shell of one
Curious eyes leached colour
Spry shoulders sagged under the weight
Of dragging your stars through the night
Full arms, fallen wide
I watched from the side
As your eyes clouded with age and grief
As your hands reached out to hold ether
As you held your pieces together with pain
I watched from the side
As they erased your reds
They took away your yellows
And blanketed you in white
I watched from the side
Another pair of eyes
In your deconstruction
In the unpacking of your essence
And I was silent
I was complicit in this violence
I saw everything
but never through your eyes
It was fast
It was too fast
That you were left all alone
Awards
This contribution won the third-runner up in the Poet’s Carnival 2021.
Credits
This contribution is photographed by Ravindra Patoju.
Product
This poem is also available in paperback & ebook.
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