Grief Had Robbed Me Poem by Dónall Dempsey

GRIEF HAD ROBBED ME

I had(somehow)
lost my self.

Looked in all
the usual places.

The mind
(empty as bedamned) .

The heart
(a hollow laugh) .

Even memory
(not the merest sign) .

Grief had robbed me
of who I knew as me.

Left me nothing but
a full sized cardboard cut-out

of who I
used to be.

I felt like a movie set
house you know all

front & no
back.

Unreally I
appeared real.

'Hope it don't rain...'
my cardboard self

said to
itself.