Rosie L

Rosie was sixteen

Blue and green

Dissolved in a bottle of bad dreams

Her family moved in when mine moved out Two kids same hum of the fridge

Same house

Nothing in her school’s icy cool

Advice in the verses of God

Got through

All that talk about

What you’ll live without

Made her sick as hell

I still think about

Life goes on without

That young Rosie L

I was so surprised

Thought every rising sun was a battle she won No help from anyone

All that talk about

What you’ll live without

Made her so unwell

I still think about

Life goes on without

That young Rosie L