hearts and flowers

Nothing happened today -
there was nothing to scare me
only the wonder
of how
to let the years fall away -
no-one came to my door
to beat me
to knife me
to sell me

I thought of my father
and all the words
we did not say -
he did not know those
so thick stones, the low
granite of the place, the Strath's
beauty -
he bought our freedom
with his body

And now his daughter,
daily, decades after
lingers over birdsong
and the flowers' bouquet

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