When She Remembers (I Cry)

The moss is everywhere
mould is setting in
the stone walls are wet
blackness on tree roots where thick mud begins
and the baby cries
and the baby screams
and the buses drive on past
and he hits
he hits so hard in fallen dreams
and the crying stops
and the mould keeps growing
and the moss keeps spreading
and cars slow down to crawl on past
and the baby’s brain bleeds
and it never seems to cease
and the body not dead
but the brain
damaged

And Police try to ask him why
questions just a ladder
into an empty well
why it cry?
why it swell?
and they see it in his smile
a devil smirk
the confessions
of a raping paedophile

After decades behind bars
takes steps again in the cold wind
a face on the pavement
a malicious sin

My Mother
a true warmth
a Teresa spark
holding back emotions
trying to talk about harm
trying not to scream through her veil
trying not to loose control
in a social worker hell
breathing moss
sitting in mould
lit by red traffic lights
lit by sadness