Title: Pages Spoilers: up to "The Gift" Summary: A series of poems from Dawn's POV when Giles is sent to a mental ward Disclaimer: See 'not mine' Not mine: self-explanatory A/N:

people they're so selfish

they come in the bells announcing their arrival

they want cat's claw or coltsfoot leaf

I don't bother to tell them that the leaves shouldn't be used while pregnant

am I heartless now?

they chatter endlessly telling me how they're going to be the ones to heal a family member

no one cares that my family is spiraling into nothingness

no one cares that my family is sick and deprived

no one not even that man over there by the bookshelf leafing through pages of books making that

whoosh crinkle whoosh

sound that Giles used to make

not even he cares

he's so wrapped up in himself that he doesn't see me turning to dust

like the page of an old book with no Giles to care for it