TMN XII

Friday, 29 March 2019

They said it would happen – repeatedly.

They said it would definitely happen. On this day. Absolutely certain.

They said it again. And again. They even wrote it into law!

Everything would be different from 11pm onwards.

Never again like it was before. The past, over.

As the clock strikes midnight 33.3km east of Dover.

...

The day we don't go

I'll be sitting in the theatre with Susanne.

We'll be standing in a doorway

not wanting that door to shut,

not wanting a door or a wall to exist.

I've had the privilege of travelling in Europe

and working with Europeans.

I am a European and I am proud of that.

I am English, sometimes,

these days,

I am not so proud of that.

Liz Hall