
I wish to live despite my love has died
And I have no-one but a cat to feed and stroke.
In memory my love will long abide
Though as I write I feel my spring has broke.
My grammar and my spelling are perverse
I used to make religion out of these.
But now I feel that life is getting worse.
As if my heart’s been stung by monstrous bees
In such a state my words may get confused
My sentences are senseless as they’re writ
And as for syntax, it is now abused
As round this room the ghosts of lovers flit.
My grammar is not perfect yet it be
Sad I can say just the same of me
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