We go everywhere <br />together <br />do everything <br />together. <br /> <br />Well Woman Centre? <br />There I am <br />holding your hand <br />while you have a cervical smear <br />(you insistent I be there) . <br /> <br />The doctor scowls. <br />I know you <br />inside <br />out. <br /> <br />Now, here <br />an X-ray <br />displays you <br />and your skull <br />stares back at me <br /> <br />glowing in ghostly <br />wonder. <br />I gaze at <br />the bare bones of you. <br />Your voice <br />talks to the nurse <br /> <br />but like a ventriloquist <br />it seems to come <br />from your grinning skeleton. <br />That night <br />I hold you <br />in your sleep <br /> <br />holding your dreams <br />in my embrace <br />comforted by <br />the warmth <br />of your all too human <br />flesh.<br /><br />Dónall Dempsey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/bare-bones/
