Mango (with audio)

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The air is colder 
summer has long slipped away 
autumn will be gone soon too

I’m on the edge of winter 
while others march 
into warmer weather

I think of them 
– those others – 
enjoying the glowing days and weekend swims 
There will be no swimming for months here 
and the days are crowding me with darkness

I think of them 
– those others – 
laughing light-heartedly in the evenings  
at their summer soirees 
drinking cocktails 
plucking fruits from platters

But here 
the air is colder 
and I ache to be somewhere else 
adrift with hope 
swimming in life’s joy 
feeling full of contentment and fruit   
because… 
my favourite fruit is mango

Sound credits: Bosk1 and thorvandahl

21 thoughts on “Mango (with audio)”

  1. I wrote one about Mango’s too Bree …

    Mango Smoothie

    I’m reading sacred scriptures
    searching for her leftover pieces
    I drank a mango smoothie instead
    to feed my word starved head
     
    I’m following the score
    winners cheating on soft hearts
    Demons covering the doors
    and angels cannot reach the charts
     
    I’m laying her on a massage table
    listening to a sad amble
    I prod her skin deep
    Shoulders, down to her feet
     
    I’m rubbing salve over her soul
    cleansing her masking sheet
    Revealing wounded sandholes
    bruised upon a pebble beach
     
    I’m a healer who’s lost
    Gravitated by her sorrow
    How do I catch a falling arrow
    And mend her broken cross

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