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Night sky darkens and across a crumbling pavement
runs a rivulet of rain: curving the lamp post
and descending the gutter, rippling the concrete channel
toward an iron grated drain.

And the street light flickers with a persistent intermittence
the contorted sputtering glancing a figure on the ground:
and from somewhere beneath her rumpled clothing seeps
an increasing lake of crimson creeping the uneven curb side
in the silence without restrain.

Lank hair floats a puddle and there’s fresh flesh gaping at her side.
A lipstick gash divides her cheek: mascara weeping a silent cry.

And in her hand the knife that killed her
as she slashed her wrists in desperation
escaping the man who raped her
five years previous: her
bleeding innocence
his brief
‘Goodbye’.

I very much appreciate you dropping by to read this one.

Thank you 🙏

The first, Dido’s Lament sung by Annie Lennox along with the London City Voices was recorded December 2020 in order to raise money for Greenpeace, but the words ring so true for here too.

The second is ‘Why’ by Annie Lennox.

Why?

Enough said.

Thank you again 🙏

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