Agency, for Juliet

Nobody is at fault

there's only failure to love

and be honest

nobody wants to admit that

we are wretched things

myopically small

of mind

and envious at heart

of the other

no-one is to blame

for the part

or for the whole disaster

and we are the same

as the smoke

as the dust

as the falling plaster

we are the fires

in the sky

we are the sun

and the moon

we are the rising water