Robbie

Smoking a cigarette, I exhale, stuck here on my mind, a lover's face impaled, can anyone retain, that unforgiving light, the way she's famed, haunted, proud, regaled, she no longer asks why, about the time after jail, she was first to name, places where it's wise to lie, and safer still to fade, a woman beyond the pale, who beat out her time, danced around the flames, crossed uncertain terrain, laughed beneath each sky, small wonder that I failed, colours brighter than mine