MOVING ON

Shut the door: no point

in wasting heat –

but if you wish

leave it ajar just in case.

He may return, of course.

We understand. 

Bed made.

window clean, blind drawn

lamp on desk

asleep for months.

Be a dear:

check that it works.

You can see he's been.

That’s his chair.

His clarinet in its baby casket     

needs new reeds –

his books …

The economy, a failed relationship,

wanting to save, back from Afghanistan,

Trump and Brexit -

any one of these may bring him back.

The battery in the clock is dead.