our neighbours are not our friends 2

Abulia

Stop looking at sky and stars

Stare into the screen

Shine of your life passes unseen

Dods of things to come

The bits you hide inside

Your life fallen down the side of a chair

Out of it you stare

Bury me in sand

The sea can wash my bones

My life is now whole

Baptised by side-streams

Made pure by coming apart

All lessons an art

Of slipping into decay

Surrender humility

Send me on my way