Miriam Craig
Miriam Craig writes poetry for adults and children. Her first poem to be published appeared in the February 2018 issue of Obsessed With Pipework. She also writes children’s fiction. Her first published work was The Golden Ticket created by tech start-up Wonderbly, of which Miriam was part of the writing team, and launched in September 2017. She lives in London.
This is a Note to Say
I looked for you.
Perhaps you left before I came:
an early bluebell
peeping up through snow.
Perhaps you’ll wake, and stretch
like Juliet in her tomb
just as the handle of my life
clicks closed.
This is a note to say
that through the whole hard
turning of life’s wheel
I looked, and never found you.
But there were days I crushed
soft lavender in my hands
and breathed its haze,
when, picking each jagged step
I climbed up waterfalls,
when, thinking of you
I reached my fingertips,
aching, to the world’s far walls.
© 2018 Miriam Craig