Wednesday, 16 June 2021

TAKEN BACK

 

A melody haunts me

Like a ghost from way back

Familiar, remembered

A stardust memory

From yesteryear

A good memory

Of a great time

Of halcyon days

Never to be seen again

I’m back for an instant

Riding the Clapham Omnibus

With girls in cloche hats

And dancing at the Palais

With girls in silk stockings

Watching Morris dancing

On the village green

And noisy steam trains

Thundering into the station

Listening to the band play

In the park on Sundays

Walking my girl home

After a night at the pictures

Sunday lunch at mums

A welcoming fire in the grate

That talk with dad

Before my first date

A simpler time a happier time

But you can’t return

Even if you want to

But you can remember

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