Gold alone remains

A Note

I’ll write you
into a canvas of green and blue
memory made in your image,
like a post-it note that says
‘just popped out’.
This is proof that
you were here once,
that you’re just gone for now.

Folded up with me
a slip of paper that speaks
in your voice,
a part of you I can claim,
time-capsule the years away.

This is proof that
you were here.

Although things aren’t the same
you promised you would stay by me,
stay technicolour in memory
until green and blue fade
until gold alone remains.

Faith Falayi

An exquisite sculpture drenched in colour by Rod Bugg nestles in a tree in the Cattle Market.
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Rod Bugg  is a sculptor who works primarily in clay and drawing. He has been represented by Galerie de Witte Voet, Amsterdam for many years, showing in June 2017 in 4 British Artistswith Martin Smith, Ken Eastman and Clare Twomey and was featured in the RAW Art Fair in 2014 and the forty years anniversary show in January 2015. In 2013 he had six pieces of work in the Discerning Eye exhibition at the Mall Galleries and won the Humphreys Purchase Prize. In 2014 he had a solo exhibition at North House Gallery in Manningtree, Essex. 

Faith Falayi  ​is a young poet based in Peterborough. In 2020 she was selected the first Peterborough Young Poet Laureate. ​https://syntaxpoetryfestival.wordpress.com/peterborough-young-poet-laureate-2020/