I will write you a poem one day
and it will be all about what happened
and how you could have done better
and how I could have done better
and it will have imagery
that other people don’t understand
and there will be a goblin with sharp teeth
and it will be brave, not hiding behind vague promises,
and be gloriously self-confident
and include one line of beauty
that will help what happened never happen.

Carl Burkitt 2024