from Selected Poems

(a poem distilled from my microfiction piece In memory of memories)

Anguish breached the numbness

Slick with shame 

Too long lost at sea

I agreed to ECT 

Dazed brain could scarcely retain

Any images

Neither moments enjoyed 

nor moments endured

Those memories dissolved 

dissected 

disconnected

The slippery fragments drift 

untethered 

in a dark sea, years wide and deep

Ready canvases remained blank

And a chest, devoid of treasure, sank

Now we dig for treasures in the sand

Sunlight glinting off wet skin, small hands

Beaming, he clambers up

And into my embrace, 

into his space 

moulded by a thousand

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