A Poem for Mental Health Awareness Week 2016

I'm posting a poem from my new collection, Breadcrumbs, to mark Mental Health Awareness Week 2016, which has the theme of relationships.


Headland

  

This was no rupture. No sudden loss

that left you stranded from yourself

All the same, the land is gone

He must have filched it with a spoon

so surreptitiously sometimes even now

you don’t perceive its absence as anything

more than a tendency to dream

don’t hear the breach filled with echoing dark,

don’t notice you’ve stopped building boats and bridges

out of stories

©Deborah Harvey 2016