Geoffrey and Truth 2022.

A retired secret service agent reflects on his past.

He guessed it would 

in itself not

matter if he

pretended to

his wife that he

worked for a firm

that made old world

furniture, and

that this would need

him now and then

going abroad

to sort out things

if it needed. 

Looking back now,

him retired

and his wife dead,

such a concept

looking back now

seems quite shallow,

because his wife

never questioned

his job, nor why

he went abroad

in the first place.

He couldn't say

what his job was

nor why he was

often away.

Officially 

he didn't work

for whom he did,

everything

was so hush hush, 

his work hidden

from public view

doing the work

he had to do.

Even now years

later he can

say nothing of

what he did then,

sitting in that

coffee cafe

sipping latte,

watching the world

about him now

unaware he

once moved in

darker circles,

keeping them safe

from enemies

they didn't know

because nothing

would ever show.