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Dear Heart, Some Questions by Susan Lander

  • Susan Lander
  • Apr 2
  • 1 min read

Though you are still present, here, in your chair

I ache for the absence of you

 

You depart, moment by day

piece by memory

 

And as your desire to fight wanes

it leaves an empty oyster shell on the shore of my heart

 

You are silent, gazing back over eras

to a life uniquely lived

 

Do you think of years well explored

Or dwell on opportunities lost

 

And I wonder, when this ends

will you be happy

Illustration by Sky Costello-Ross
Illustration by Sky Costello-Ross

Susan Lander worked as a nurse before turning her attention, perhaps inevitably, to writing. She is certain that nursing is much easier than writing. Patients, unlike her characters, at least largely try to behave themselves. She lives in Wiltshire with her long-suffering husband, whose unique skills include a first class honours in camouflage when she appears waving a new story, and their two delinquent cats, Tigger and Midnight. She enjoys behaving badly with friends and family and vows never to grow up, believing it to be vastly overrated.

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