Pome: What They Try To Take

Is what they cannot have

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Don’t let them take you. Pic: Paradisio Publishing

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What They Try To Take

they take your money

and they take your memories of childhood 

and they take who you are

and they take the way the morn eases into afternoon

the bluecoloured hue of your eyes

and they come back for the people you once knew

the laughter in the parlour

sun out for 5 mins this froze winter

point their tanks and canons at you

bankrupt your heart and close in on your brain

for they are after the one thing they cannot have 

if you are lucky