Give Me a Reason
by Marc Carver
I have the same feeling I had before the covid
people would walk away from me
or look at me strangely
or worry when I got too close to them
only now
they make it more obvious
and now they have a real reason
Not me
I listen to the neighbours as they talk to their young son in the garden.
Nicholas has done this and done that always in a nice way as he potters about laughing
but I can’t help but think
referring to him in the third person might make him doubt his existence as he gets older.
He may do things and write them off as somebody else.
Then again we can all do that
I wasn’t my fault

Marc Carver is a UK-based poet.