That's How I Know - Darren Hanlon

An old lost book has reappeared

With the pages all dog-eared

That’s how I know you’ve been here

The garden’s gone to rack and ruin

But I’ll be up and the crack of noon

In time to seize the evening

They say that waking up is hard to do

It doesn’t take a Sherlock Holmes

To decipher all your poems

As abstract as you make them

Put painted hand-prints on T-shirts

Laugh until the stomach hurts

Days like these don’t have price tags

Talk of the love and the like

She let him borrow her bike

With tyres gasping for air

Brought it back with wheel rim buckled

He hopes that with any luck she’ll

Decide to ride the bus to work come morning

They say that waking up is hard to do

But when she did

Breaking up has never been easier

Now there’s a hint of that perfume

On blankets in the lounge room

That’s how I know you slept there