I told him I had a dream.
He said,
“Dreams are for starry-eyed saps.”

So I told him I had a goal.
He said,
“Goals are for bankers and life-coaches.”

So I told him I had a thing
and he said,
“What the heck do you mean by a ‘thing’?”

Shauna Robertson hails from the north-east of England and currently lives, writes, and draws in the south-west. Her poems are widely published in journals and anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic and have won, or been shortlisted for, a number of awards, including a nomination for the Forward Prize in the category Best Single Poem. A chapbook of poems, Blueprints for a Minefield, was published by Fair Acre Press in 2016, while artwork and poem-pictures have been exhibited in a number of galleries. Shauna has performed her work at festivals, book launches and spoken word nights. Read some poems at shaunarobertson.wordpress.com.