Geoffrey After A Friend's Funeral 2025.

After the funeral

of an old friend

Geoffrey attended the wake

in the church hall.

He sat at a corner table

with other friends

he'd not seen in a while.

Small talk and soft laughter

about earlier times.

But he felt out of it,

felt like going home

to his empty house

and sit in his armchair

and pour a whiskey

and a light a cigarette

and put on the Debussy record

his late wife bought him

and sit listening

wishing she was there still,

that togetherness,

that loss instead

which he doesn't

want to feel.