LUGGAGE

my luggage


A list of identifiable items,

After the long haul

The journey is a year, an hour, a day a month,

In a minute things will change!

That's what we all say

Hope for, something?

But the luggage stays the same

Hidden under different exteriors

Today fake leather durable fabric

water resistant, resists wear and tear,

Tomorrow plastic, polyester or nylon or canvas

light easy to handle

back frame in rucksack

to take the strain

But the luggage stays the same

An old toothbrush

A half finished sandwhich

a note book

Squeezed tube of paste

old shoes

lost maps of the underground

novels full of bus tickers

marker pens

phone numbers scribbled on bits of paper

people that you almost met

But will never know

new shoes

crumpled towels

one change of clothes

books you will never read on the journey home,

music still in your head

a passport photo expired long ago

of some one with your ears and eyes and nose!

A rotten forgotten apple at the bottom

meant for consumption

your life's dreams

full of photographs of strangers

standing in line

Bustops and corner shops

parties communions

weddings and funerals

waving goodbye

A shopping list

A shopping line

A whole weeks clothes

a battered bible

A faded sweet wrapper

A musty smell

Old scent

Train tickets

Two years gone

A packet of out of date mints

An old cardigan

saturdays supplement sealed up

untouched by a week now gone

A letter a lover

now gone

Still singing the same song

After a day a year a month

of rain

a photograph

a film a book

And the hour it took to walk across the street

To post unopened mail

And all the notes you took

The pacts you never really made

Words said, in silence

Words that never really came

Tomorrow you hope the load is lighter

But the luggage stays the same!