Mum

By Arthur Cochrane

We sat together in silence.
The lost look in your eyes.
Once they were like eternal stars.

You were full of joy and love.
But now is pain and loneliness,
Lost in your own world.

You cry out Mum.
But she has been gone some
Twenty years.

You cry out Mum.
I pray for the kiss of death to come.
My love.

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