6th September 2018

blue skies
grey faced children reluctantly creep
ringing school bell

© Rachel Green 2018

broken nights
I can't remember the last time
I slept the night through.
Faces from the past torment me
and I wonder if I'm about to die.
The Five People you meet in Heaven
was the last thing before sleep
and I'm not sure I want to know
what my life was supposed to teach me.
How many people did I kill
without ever learning their names?
Too many,
and their bones line the charnel house
staring with empty sockets
at my wasted life.

© Rachel Green 2018