Before You – 2002 – in my study.
This poem is from another chapbook-in-progress entitled ‘Exploring Possibilities’ full of pieces written when My Man reappeared and offered a different future while I weighed the risk, knowing my recent past with a different man.
28 years later…
In the afternoon of my life,
settled,
content and comfortable
in my alone-ness
you
question me!
You destroy
my strong defences,
obliterate
my sense and reason
to let you in!
For my heart,
bow wave of confusion,
tense terror times
of doubt and fear
~ unknown ~
risk everything,
my ordered now!
The colours of my life
changing to a
different hue…
You terrify me!
Wanting – needing
arms that enclose
a broken heart…
Make it whole again!
Frances Macaulay Forde © 2002
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Perth Words... exploring possibilities. 
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