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Metropolitan Line poetry

Mostly composed on the 07:33 to Finchley Road, then hastily typed up at work. Apart from the ones written surreptitiously in boring meetings or on the way home.

Thursday, 13 December 2007

On my daughter's coming of age

We walked like lambs, blind to the wolves
that gathered at the mountain's shoulders;
trailed off, grew tired, turned silent;
climbed icy, black, boot-polished steps.

We clawed for certainty with frightened fingers.
You asked me where to go: I didn't know,
then something changed. The ground gave way,
and you moved on.

Posted by NoName at 11:19

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