The cupboard is bare......

save for a dream.....

my mother always said pretend to be helpless

I never took that advice

she said socialise more

I spent more time alone

She said look after the pennies

well i do put them in one of those machines that gives that gives you £7.20 and rejects the foreign coins you tried to sneak in

She always cried for the whole fortnight on holiday stuck in a caravan with us..my brother dad and me

I laugh my way through holidays wishing I could live in a tent forever

Her house plants were healthy

I think plants should be outside

I did pick bunches of wild flowers for her,

careful never to include mother die

She made percolated coffee for saturday tea

I was a caffeine addict from an early age

She liked things to be safe, sure footed

yet she never wears the correct shoes

I am unsafe unsure unknown with painted toenails

She had a sword and a strange bludgeoning thing stuck to the living room wall

I carry a sword

We are torn apart

and yet I was her first birthing experience

Dream on.....

 

Done