BROWSE Columns
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Empty rooms
and corridors
apart
from the furniture
unmade bed
after
unmade bed
no end in sight
no beginning
of a relationship
in years.
Single candle burning
casting shadows
on the night-time blinds
drawing and opening
curtains
again
each
morning and night.
Hoping
today
might be different
not having
to do everything
by yourself
yet again.
Things getting harder
with the passing
of each year
being the owner
of hands
rarely held.
Gavin Bourke grew up in the suburb of Tallaght in West Dublin. Married to Annemarie living in County Meath, he holds a B.A. in Humanities from Dublin City University, an M.A. Degree in Modern Drama Studies and a Higher Diploma in Information Studies from University College Dublin. His work broadly covers nature, time, memory, addiction, mental health, human relationships, the inner and outer life, creating meaning and purpose, politics, contemporary and historical social issues, injustice, the human situation, power and its abuse, absurdism, existentialisms, human psychology, cognition, emotion and behaviour, truth and deception, the sociological imagination, illness, socio-economics, disability, inclusivity, human life, selfishness and its consequences as well as urban and rural life, personal autonomy, ethics, commerce, science, grand schemes and the technological life in English and to a lesser extent in the Irish Language.
