New Year's Light

Softening twilight
of year’s end
eyes trained firmly ahead
no thought of what, could or might
as flashing rays
of new year’s light
melt the snow
of a year grown old
into pools
of brand new hope








Copyright 2012 Suzy Rigg

Relationship 1

Rudely ignoring each other’s

Evident pain

Lies (only small ones) are an everyday occurance

And yet you are 

Tied to them, tightly bonded although

Intimacy died several years ago, leaving an

Opening to be filled by trivial and other

Naughty pursuits, you feel

Sadness that the relationship has changed course but

Happy, that you are no longer ‘on the market’

It’s complex, but

Perhaps there is something in this marriage lark, after all.

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To be read in partnership with Relationship 2

Mother Light

The light of a new mother’s moonlight

which bathes her infant in protective beams

fades each passing year as the infant matures.
This rite of passage stimulates umbilical cords 

of independence to unravel, snaking their way to freedom.

When the infant finds its first voice, not the weeping

but the lyrical turns of ‘yes’ and ‘no’
there is in this, the defining of the ego;
not something the mother dreamed of

whilst flicking through pastel coloured baby magazines.

The desire to walk and run soon 
transmutes into dark steps of danger:

the unseen car, the ferocious dog, the reversing swing

lying in wait to hurt you,
your freedom comes at a high price.

Time rushes forward like wind 

baby's evolution into adult is complete.

Dancing to the beats of hormonal heaven

emitting sighs of longing
mother has long forgotten.

Reminders of the heights of desire you touched 

before the babies arrived:
your cheeky baby-snatchers

stealing passion,
in return for muted contentment.

Copyright Suzy R 2012

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