Majolica

The journey to find you was lifeless
as the sun casting its shadow
over empty apartment blocks

drooping sunflowers and money plants
broker than the landscape our train
was ploughing,

neither of us understanding
words being sowed across pavements
as we asked for directions to your father;

eventually following them scattering in
the wind.
It was luck, not God, who brought us to
you.
And then, when wrapped up in tissue
paper

the world heard you mourn,
every sunflower etched on your tin face
melting, slowly falling.