Did you brush it from your hair
or maybe from your teeth
your clothes
perhaps it was washed from your sheets
or tights
or with your bath water
flushed behind a closed toilet door
dreamt away
coughed and spat out
maybe you strode away from it

did you ignore it in a bar
did you lose it on a train
a taxi or in a fight
perhaps you changed its channel
was it used as a book-mark
donated to a charity shop
misplaced in some drawer
or behind jars of cream

was it scraped off of a plate,
maybe your shoe
has it found its way into
the corner of a pocket
was it locked out
sent packing
or hung up and forgotten about
failed to water it
left to wither
exchanged it for another
or just given away...

Where did it go?

Words and image Tommy Carroll