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'You're gorgeous', he said, 'oh baby..
...and I love the way you feel..
...but don't you think that maybe
you shouldn't have had that last meal?'

'I love your long blonde hair'
he said, 'Now, angel, don't be upset,'
'but I'm sure that you'd look far better
if you went back to being brunette.'

But I kept my hair, my looks, my weight
Discarded his views, his thoughts...
The Date
©cih16, 14:01, 11/12/16

Kintsugi*

You kept telling me I was broken
But it was your hands dropping me
Your eyes watching me
Crash
Smash
In pieces again

No longer a problem
He takes care
To repair
To restore
All those breaks
You caused
Before
©cih16, 22:37, 8/12/16

*(The Japanese art of repairing broken pottery using precious metals)

Goodbye to T S Eliot

..and this is the way that a friendship ends
Not with a bang, a whimper, a gasp

a gap

because the s is in the growing silence
©cih16, 15:07, 05.12.16