When I'm gone

The sands are cast like marigolds 

There have been 

Amazing miracles 

Little things 

The sea of corks 

Drafts of memory 

Stretching like coral 

Into the turquoise yonder 

Thin and bloody 

As a vein 

When you stretch it

Blue as long 

I don't want leave to remain 

I just want someone to love you 

When I'm gone 

We chose holy wells 

Of tramping puddles 

We span moonlight 

On our lace 

We chose life and love and laughter 

We made howling 

Grave mistakes 

Ai caramba 

All those riven, soppy

Torments

Sorry me I'm stoopid children 

But your simple 

Admonition 

Emptied the ashtray of my 
Relapse and sang me hopewards
Full of shame and  

Full of grace  

Full of umpteen loves descending 

Cracked as autumn 

Independent of description 

Coming to the mist of mellow fruition 

Which the hydra preys upon 

I don't want to impress on you 

How sins are grave and the shadow long 

I just want someone to love you 

As much as I do 

When I'm dead and gone.

14/08/17