ONLY LIGHT

 

19c

 

 

Plastic and steel, discarded rubbish
in the corner of my mother’s garden.

The apple tree long gone, the fence
now a wall. Tired rose bushes

prick through time. In the book
I am reading, a story that was once

true, women are forced to walk away
from their husbands, who return

to a broken reactor and radiation,
are made to bury a city whole

before families are informed
that the men have been buried too.

Unknown waves of finance, fashion,
desire and dreams settle as dust.

We turn out faces to the sun,
confused, trusting it is only light.

 

© Rupert M Loydell
Illustration Nick Victor


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