The Blue Pen
The days follow each other We are standing in lines
Day after day I can’t see what they’re doing
The same feeling of loss But the lines shorten
Always there What year is this?
This feeling of loss The year of my death
Over and over again I can’t remember
And wanting to stop time I can see a doctor now
All the things I did not do With a pen in his hand
Too late for any of them now The pen has a blue handle
So many questions in my head It’s my turn
No one to answer them He takes my arm
Never to know The point sinks into my skin
Maybe one day I watch
When everything is over It burns a little
They will make poetry about us A number starts to show
How we died here A - 15510
Yes It was not there before
I think they will make poetry This number in my skin
It’s not only the loss I feel The writing is small and neat
It’s that I did not give The dash very straight
When I could give I walk away holding my arm