No mattter how often I mould your face
the reality is you're gone
I form and pat you into shape
immortal under my fingertips
until I have that image in the clay
the look of death
an everlasting photograph etched in my mind
sunken cheeks, caved in eyes
anguished face that once held joy
now lost to disease and buried
lives once more in a piece of clay.

copyright
Jane F Chapman
March 2002
A Piece of Clay?
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