9th June 2018

overcast air
frolicking amongst the geraniums
a blackbird and his wife

© Rachel Green 2018

She cries, silently,
wishing for the chance
of a do-over;
a life where her mum didn't die
where her father was kind;
where her sister
(now dead)
wasn't such a bitch.
Where their frugal living
was by choice
not necessity
and where her uncle
hadn't robbed his brother blind.
Most of all
she wishes the choices she had made
had been for herself
and not repressed from Catholic guilt.

© Rachel Green 2018