-And this is how you’ll always find us

after Diana Khoi Nguyen

The day was dark and futile

My heart a wrecking ball

John resting in the loo

Overlooked and looking

for a second point of view

This is how she found us

the past draped about us like a cloak

Maria with her eagle eyes,

her boa floating by like smoke

No doubt about her energy

we were the guilty two

And she, a nose for trouble

especially that which she could use.

She was no goddess, surely

more a ghost of days gone by

An actress of the ages

of a world not yours or mine

And in our catatonic fugue

She used us as a host

Taking both the shadows

And the past hid in our cloaks

We were the first of many

Victims of her ego

And this is how you’ll always find us

If first of course you find us

Before you too feel the knife

Of that immortal vixen

And taste the futility

Of a past entwined with hers

The dawn of the last intrepid

Breath you’ve yet took

The morning that she took us

And our home became her rook