Flotsam


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

unremembered hugs