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Names and Numbers
Put away those answers
put your pens down
put aside your differences
put it all together now
a family you can belong to
a hope you can hold fast to
but no,
not now, now you have left
you have ended your stay
and just like that you are reduced
to sales and statistics
to a memory now fading
to bitter and jaded
to a world now riddle laden
from a name to a family you went
now reduced to a spec
a list of things
no longer a favourite
only a figure
only a picture
only a name... now just a number
© A G Blake
put your pens down
put aside your differences
put it all together now
a family you can belong to
a hope you can hold fast to
but no,
not now, now you have left
you have ended your stay
and just like that you are reduced
to sales and statistics
to a memory now fading
to bitter and jaded
to a world now riddle laden
from a name to a family you went
now reduced to a spec
a list of things
no longer a favourite
only a figure
only a picture
only a name... now just a number
© A G Blake
