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A Thought
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Key Stage 2I wish Mum’s sadness
was a necklace
she could unclasp
from her throat
in the cool bedroom-dark
and drop carelessly
into a mirrored box
in the morning
she’d throw back the curtains
open the box
see her sadness
and say
I choose not
to need
to wear you
today
© Matt Goodfellow from Being Me: Poems About Thoughts, Worries and Feelings. Otter-Barry 2021
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