Just going about your day 
Making a cup of tea 
You're at Tesco’s,
you're buying lettuce, 
‘Oh yeah’
A ball can drop very rapidly 

Certain times of the year
you feel more connected,
at the same time, 
sometimes,
just out of nowhere
 
The last couple of years  
he decided to go to work
Focus
To feel like his life 
hasn't been ripped apart
That memory of his life 
falling apart and rupturing
  
She hadn't seen her 
for many years
Many different flavours of reaction 
Relief, 
enormous relief, actually
Layers of ‘Am I even allowed to feel this?’

Feel angry
 
For the first few years,
in the run up to her birthday, 
she’d still go to the shops 
and look at the things 
that she would have bought her
Not buy them, 
but still go through that process 
and think about it, 
because they're the things 
as well that she’s lost