the hostage’s return
a mum returns to a child now half her size
red nails the colour of blood’s demise
a freedom imprisoned outside her head
hands holding tight to a plea instead
mummy mummy in pain’s holding kiss
history has always arrived like this
back home is where we have always been
dear god humankind is so obscene
one star in the firmament explodes
the rest life’s utter darkening roads
love’s smile is all that we have got
as for the rest it is best forgot
a child has grown twice her mummy’s size
built from lonely midnight cries
every arrival is but to depart
everything eventually a broken heart
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