nostalgic city painted night under a swollen moon
you breathe memories on a light breeze stirring
something missing abandoned reluctantly
inside the damp soil swelling
beneath brilliant neon glow oblique veneer
stretching long into the sky broadcasting wide
behind twinkling village lights
wavering at the edge of consciousness ghosts hum
an indecipherable melody filling a not quite void
with something incomplete unrealised
drifting out over black water
harbour
still
and
soundless
obscuring
deep turbulent currents
compressed and broken prematurely
unswelling unroaring unrealised unwaves unbelonged
under a sky someone else’s
not yours and stars that never were
divisive divided undecided decided-for unimaginable
where is your song scattered all over the earth
when will you be back like you told us