10. I saw him standing, by Ann Griffiths

A love poem today, translated from 18th-century Welsh by Rowan Williams.

Keep company with him and you will know:
no kin, no likeness to those empty eyes.

Ann Griffiths

Read the whole poem

(A love poem to an imaginary friend, some would say – I’m not fussed either way… the imagination is real, and can heal.)