Loose Ends
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 lines of
dialogue unspoken
actions
un-done, starts un-finished
and what
had been built up so far
as merely an
un-completed novella
You left the plot-lines unresolved
and the warmest trails to cool
and a door
not quite closed, but left ajar
where someone
just went out
but never
came back in 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
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