Poetry list
descent
I walk down the
stairs seeing you
leave our home for
ever – stricken
by the fate that awaits
us all a descent
which I can never
forget and is burnt
into my happiness
disabling and souring
it for it is together
that our differences beat
in heart and soul
and now the daily
trigger of loss the tearing
pang of absence
of oblivion
every step down
I need
to follow but
please take
my hand
© Neil Thompson 2022