A night like no other

Lactose free Baileys and sparkling Gamay

A caring French nurse working on Christmas Day

No number to dial when you look at your phone

except 111 and your ex boyfriend’s one 

The only space where you feel safe

are the empty corridors of the hospital

in the middle of the night

Sometimes it feels like the foxes would devour you

if you were lying on the ground,

unconscious

Sniffing your legs and licking the blood on your face

until you wake up 

When life is a disaster, and there is nowhere to go

don’t jump on your bike like a reckless idiot 

or life will teach you a lesson 

There is nowhere to go

except in your own mind 

when you become blind