As I Know She Stood Before The Alter
Four o’clock Feel the time, heavy, Weighing on my heart, like lead, A fixture, not removable, screwed, bolted, welded. It’s happening, feeling it, right now, or has, Like damocles, dark blunt, over me. Four o’clock she stood Lives, already past, that motorway junction, long gone, Both separate ways, never eye-to-eye, bumper-to-bumper Still in tow, cable, arm thick, steel, invisible. Heart entwined, the key, singularly forged, in a bag, she has, like Mary Poppins, lost, to the wind, my heart.