• What hides behind the glass?
    You think you can see but
    Let’s just be honest. There’s
    Clearly bleeding, and tears.
    But laughter.
    If not any laughter then
    Would the blood, or the tears,
    Or anything else which sits
    Behind the glass exist?

    At present I see the up-turn
    Of pink lips behind the glass.
    Doesn’t this suggest there was
    Laughter before the smile?
    Whilst perhaps small palms use
    What little force there is to create
    Sound of comfort, enough to
    Laugh at.

    At what cost does the bleeding
    Happen?
    Lord knows those lips did cry for
    Such nuisance.
    Or perhaps not.
    But was the blood delivered by
    Nature or man.
    Like the frames of the glass which
    Disguise what you and I try to see?

    Those lips couldn’t have always
    Have been up-turned.
    Perhaps if they were not man made.
    But let’s assume they are.
    Imagine those lips disarray into
    Many shapes.
    Open, closed, stretched, pursed?...
    Perhaps the bleeding came often
    Or occasions so rare.
    But I didn’t realise
    the glass was no longer there.