Picture a torrent
Picture the tide
Picture the great wave
The wall
Of memories
At the boundary stands a lone man
Holding the flow back
Arms spread wide, body braced against the deep blackness beyond
Stay back
He’ll keep them safe
The treasured memories
From the knives of the reality of the present
Picture a lone woman
She screams the tide back
Stay back
So no one can ever see the shame
Each memory brings
To stop them from entering the world and colouring it
She turns on the memories
She hates them
They stand side by side, but when their gaze meets they know
They are not comrades
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