Making a brief festive season return to this excellent project. Greetings and best wishes to everyone !!
Not such a festive poem unfortunately. In fact I need to take the opportunity to remind folks of the Lifeline and beyond blue numbers ( Lifeline 13 11 14; beyond blue 1300 22 46 36)
Your client
on this 2am call
his voice is coming
out of a tunnel he is
trapped in a blind
tunnel of only a tunnel
collapsed on itself he is
running out of
air he is inhaling
fumes he is dust-thirsty
and partly broken
you with your suffering
mind you must claw him an airhole
widen it to window with your taut
vocal cords you must
lower him down a shovel
and a flask with your mere,
your listening
heart
you must winch him
to the surface even if
you succeed
there will be no
cheering, no cameras even if
this one ends
well you will do it all
again later
tonight you will
do it all again
tomorrow
MELINDA SMITH 2016
Timely in fact :( That middle section is amazing.
ReplyDeleteVery well caught images of despair and hope x
ReplyDeleteChilling and powerful, Melinda.
ReplyDeleteapposite extended metaphor drives it home
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading and commenting !
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