Voting for war

Rob CullenMar 15 So they’ve voted for our safety to go to warAnd the dead are walking the land once moreAnd the dead are standing again at the doorStanding there, looking, waiting once more They were the ones who went before to the warNow they’re standing waiting for the onesGoing where they’ve been so many […]

Voting for war

Supermarket meeting

Foto Rob Cullen first published 2016 in “Uncertain Times – Poetry & Photographs” ©RobCullen.

I came across her

you

my friend’s wife

his widow

in the supermarket lost isle

with your child

an unexpected meeting

your young daughter smiling

head down.

Not knowing what to say

I didn’t say I missed him.

But the emptiness was there.

©robcullen02122020.

I

I came across her

you

my friend’s wife

his widow

in the supermarket lost isle

with your child

an unexpected meeting

your young daughter smiling

head down.

Not knowing what to say

I didn’t say I missed him.

But the emptiness is there.

©robcullen02122020.