I followed where you led me
And read through many chapters
Towards the intended ending
Which you had prepared so carefully for me
All those significant hints
And deliberately-dropped clues
Pointing towards an obvious conclusion
But there was no proper resolution
Nor any final denouement
And when the central character
Who had held my attention
For hundreds of pages
Suddenly disappeared
Without warning or any explanation
And the circumstances of the story petered out
It meant leaving many words unspoken
Things un-done, un-finished
And what had been built so far
An un-completed folly
You left the plot-lines unresolved
And the warmest trails to cool
And a door not quite closed, but left ajar
Where someone went out
But never came back again
You raised my expectations
But did not meet them
You let my hopes come to nothing
For there was to be no neat ending
And what had seemed important once
Became a mess of un-connected details
Which made no sense at all
The ship did not come in
The wrong people won
There were no just desserts
Just an empty feeling
Open, vague, unclear
Of waiting, wondering
What might have happened
To tie up all those loose ends
If only the last few pages of our story
Had not been missing
Copyright Andy Fawthrop 2012
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