From Across The Room

December 2019

We were hired to do a job

Serving cake and tea

With mulled wine on the hob

December 2019

We hadn’t met before

My feelings, unfamiliar

When you walked through the door

Christmas lights were shining bright

We drank baileys in the morning

Christmas carols would play all day

Though we both found them boring

Droplets dripping off of pine trees

It seemed a dreary day

But when I looked at you

The sky didn’t seem so grey

Shorter days and longer nights

We looked up at the moon

I couldn’t help the way my gaze would stray

And always lead to you

I saw the stars inside of your eyes

That shone a flaming blue

The sweetest smile and hair that’s wild

I had fallen for you

At last, we went home alone

With a hug and a simple goodbye

I didn’t ask you for your phone

I guess I was too shy

It seemed in 24 hours

The world had flipped upside down

Hospitalisation of the population

Due to a virus spreading around

December 2021

I’m at the place that we met

My love’s as strong as it came along

I long to see you again

December 2021

I thought about you everyday

Have you been struggling these past two years?

I need to know if you’re okay

With ruby red eyes glued to the door

I watch from across the room

You walk in and glance my way

I watch our love bloom

“It’s been so long, how are you?”

I can’t utter a reply

“Who are you?”

“I am Sue.”

And so, I watch our love die