when you came
to take me home I
went willingly
took your hand
easily
then you made
too many left turns
led me down
too many
blind alleys
left me more lost
that I was before
you came and said
let me take you
home.
I am safe
and so are you
you are home.

I am leaving now
my love
and I will leave my heart with you
safekeeping
for better days
no longer can I stay.

we speak the same language
yet can’t understand
a single word
we are trying to say
to each other.

I knew myself better
when I wore
another man’s
clothes

Sleep easy, he said
if only
but never again with you
I thought.

When I left you
I didn’t realise
there was a tiny morsel of you
sewn into my heart
forever

my heart
is buried deep
in yesterday