Sandra Kavanagh Josefsson

Piles of books on the floor.
Darkened curtains hanging on the rails.
Cups of half-drunken tea to be seen.
Drops of water dripping into the pails.
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If I could turn back the clock
and revisit that day.
Things would be different.
I would know the right words to say.
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A simple flower is all I want.
Not bouquets of roses or jewels.
A simple tulip or daffodil
Or one of the violets at the foot of the mill.
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Uncage your heart
and let me see,
the secrets you hold within.
Give me the key,
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Look into my eyes
and tell me that you care.
Look into my eyes and tell me
that you will be there.
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Thunder and Lightning
was frightening when we were small.
Now we are older and a little bolder.
It does not seem to matter at all.
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Here I am,
the three faces of the Moon.
Clearing the ancestral trauma,
amongst the ruins.
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She said her favourite colour was skyblue,
that was before you.
That was after a time of trauma,
And when everything was new.
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Over Dublin's Rooftops,
I see St Michan's Church,
and the Liffey to its right.
I see the tower of Irish Whiskey
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In the loneliness of the night.
when everything is quiet,
and all you hear is the wind,
tapping lightly on your window pane,
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In a faraway place, there lived a man
and his family and they were very poor.
One day a white bear came and asked for the youngest daughter,
and in her place would be given riches,
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As I lay here and hold your hand,
the morning has, but come.
I wish our time could be longer,
but it cannot be undone.
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Wild horses and red poppies in a field
across the way.
Thats how I remember that rainy day.
The day you left and everything was in disarray.
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You are to me my everything,
and even though we are apart.
You are in my thoughts daily,
it has been like this from the start.
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I see you and you see me.
We do not care about the world
and all its hate.
We carry on, play in the street
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I have not forgotten you my darling.
How can the sun forget the moon.
How can rainy days in March,
Forget sunny ones in June.
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The New Year has come.

The New Year has come,
It has finally arrived.
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You were always so brave,
In everything that was thrown at you,
in life.
And nobody knew or would have guessed
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The light within you shines so bright,
but you don't realise.
The effect you have on everyone,
if you knew would be a surprise.
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Little fox sleep.
Dream fast in your slumber.
Little fox do not weep.
The day is long.
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