Christy Lefteri

Some children play with toys on a mat in the corner of the room.

I find Afra on our bed again

There is an expression on her face I recognise from years ago, and it makes my sadness feel like something palpable, like a pulse, but it makes me afraid too, afraid of fate and chance, and hurt and harm, of the randomness of pain, how life can take everything from you all at once.