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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