Mocked by Magpies and Moths
'Grief is Love hidden in a dark coat.'
I left the moth lying on the bathroom sink
Don’t you just hate waking up like this
The feelings not gone but your sight has changed
everything changed when June turned 22
Sunset broke and took the walls from me
How can you stand and watch
Shades of blue
Magpies mock you
The sky carried on like it hadn’t even blinked
I felt my pillow for the knife
Is this the best you can do?
I have not known who I am for the longest time
Grief changes a lot, it restarts the mind
The edge on my fingers
My fingers on the edge
Jumping from here wouldn’t make anything end
I won’t take the walls from them
But I left the moth where it was, on the bathroom sink
If nothing has changed
I’d know whose mind im in
The moth was gone
The spider that hung from my wall
They know more than my fingers
They know more than you
Where did they go?
Why did you?
Was that you on my bathroom sink?
Did you come home after all this?
Come home again
Stay until the end
Be the magpie in my garden
Flash of sunlight in the rear view mirror
Be home again
Call my name from downstairs
But just stay this time
Let me see you again.
For my mum, who I miss and love more than anything. 22/6/22
About the Creator
jessica moonan davies
in a world of my own🐇
20.
obsessed with alice in wonderland, remus lupin, space, and anything mythical or gothic
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Comments (1)
I'm so sorry for your loss 🥺 Your poem was very poignant and emotional.