Sundays ~ Days Are Sometimes Black-Sundays!
I wrote this in early 2015 during a slight dip … I knew I could see off the prognosis successfully but could I pull the wool over mum’s eyes in time, before her own parting …? We all have these moments and the last word sees our glass half empty, but actually become half full
Days are sometimes black
And as the hours pass
Hearts grow heavier still …
No respite
Clouds grow dark and menacing
Reflecting our mood
And the mood of the day,
oppression and fear stalks
a paving stone behind
The sky is black
But not with the Sun’s decline
Past looms up prodding and pushing
Present goading
Future scorning
You stupid fool
How dare you think you be someone
How dare you presume a gift
It is naught!
Go back from whence you came
The darkness of the evening hour
The candle blanketed,
That iron mask again
The spirit broken,
its soul cast into outer darkness
from whence …
N O R E T U R N
In the far, far distance
a hint
Past, Present, Future
The ugly sisters
Dawn’s eyes roll with a hint of contempt
You three never learn, will you!
You cannot stop me returning
29 December 2021
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© 2023 Kenneth Thomas Webb
Written 11 January 2015
Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.
