Shouts and screams,
bangs in dreams.
We shuddered in the bunk beds
of our sea themed bedroom
like tiny fish.
They didn’t even try to restrain
the noise
or pretend everything was fine.

We hid.

Do you remember when
they were each going to have
one?
Acamera flash of broken moment,
vision torn, my head screamed.

Every cell in revolt.

Hot tears steamed the windows
as we drove away without you.

Memories blur,
but the car
stopped.

As suddenly as it had started.

A return, to what?
She was always too cold and the house was too hot.