Sun-kissed

Once I had red hair

And you, you had a

Slice of sunshine

Falling on your face

As I looked up at you

Shielded by your shadow

Burning into memory

My pictures of us

But the sunshine and you

Came long before

The red hair and a life

Without the sun

Tactile memory

Lost in your memory

Missing your loving

Remembering

How you always whisper

You’re so warm and

Pull me closer

Your rough and tender

Rough and tender

Love hate love

Amber

Sometimes

I find myself

Drifting

Dreaming

These daredevil

Dreams

But you and I

We have no right

To amber

Trapped for

Aeons in frozen

Streams

We’re transient

Translucent

Memories

Not everyone

Plays for

Keeps

You read me wrong

When you admitted

You read me wrong

You were still heading

The wrong way;

You read me wrong

That time you thought

I was a girl who’d

Want to stay

Pyramid scheme

I should

Trade you

Perhaps

Upgrade you

Half a point

Back then

You were

Half a point

Ahead of me

In English, once,

When I scored

Only 99-and-a-half

And you, a full 100

And in cheating

When you had

Not one but two

Of my best friends

Callous (dis)regard

My friend tells me

This callous disregard

I have for life –

Other people’s lives –

Simply won’t do.

Until realisation hits

That this is anything

But callous disregard

It is most deliberate

And deep-felt instead

2012

It’s time then

To cut off my hair

And memories of you

Face the New Year afresh

New hair, hard head, heart bled