At Speed - Holding Patterns

Small conversation

No consideration

Just walk away without anyone asking

Just like you wanted

Put locks on doors

Don’t be ashamed of anything

I’m sure you meant it all

Because I’m still waiting

For you to show some interest in this

Motionless

We lie there, don’t speak

Its fullness

Its fullness won’t leave

Dead furniture

With the room still spinning

Why don’t you ever smile

Would you show me how

Could you show me how

A smile gets remembered

Left behind now

Further with every step

Strangers to me

It’s hard to find the words

When they only fall on deaf ears

Is there something more

I’m dying for a difference

This nothing

We cling onto nothing

Wait in the recovery line and spring

Unheard

Unknown

Unrecognisable

Unafraid

Unaltered and unseen

So esteemed in defeat

There’s honour in holding beliefs

In ignominy

At speed

Please don’t dilute the memory

Clutching at straws

Incandescent, but flawed