Hunger by Rose Mary Boehm

It’s always the one that got away, that sheep
lost in the sand storm, the man who couldn’t love you
and the child that didn’t want to be born. Then there
are the talents you wanted to develop but instead
you had to crunch numbers in Mr. Henry’s lumber yard--
the songs you wanted to sing, the guitar strummed
by the boy across the road who never wrote you
a love song. Even your mum who made you who
you are today: practical and food on the table.
She never noticed you went hungry.



Rose Mary Boehm is a German-born British national living and writing in Lima, Peru. Her poetry has been published widely in mostly US poetry journals. Her latest collection, Do Oceans Have Underwater Borders, has just been snapped up by Kelsay Books for publication in May/June 2022. Her website: https://www.rose-mary-boehm-poet.com/