Wednesday 30 October 2013

LIFE SENTENCE


 

 

Sudden shaft of sunlight breaks
Through inkwell of night
Where shadow and light
Vie on the opening page
Of a script waiting to be written

Conjugated now
You poise centre-stage
Curled like a comma
Lime-lit in the amniotic dark
Ready to burst through blood
And blindly cry out
A living raw exclamation-mark

(2001)

I don’t recall any specific inspiration for this. I think it may be one of those that came out of nowhere.

All things considered, most of us lucky enough to be born in the affluent West and Europe have pretty good lives. There are too many places in the world where life still begins with a question-mark.

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