Amnesia Copyright Robert Fullarton 2014

Amnesia
Copyright Robert Fullarton 2014

Amnesia for the old love
that never was
and lavender for the dead woman
whose clothes are scented
and sold into oblivion

Old love
too small
in the face of the colossus
yesterday, today and tomorrow
it never was nor will be

Amnesia for a young lover
as he falls asleep again,
but it fell at the first hurdle
a pimple in the blemish
of the sky
an ulcer in the stomach
of the sleeping man again
yesterday, today and tomorrow
it never was, nor will be
there are greater things
than this
there is someone greater
and bigger than this
the heart hungers beyond
the pallid sight of day.