Looking Back With Love
When you’re getting old
And in the autumn of your life,
Sitting in your favourite chair
And wrapped against the cold,
Let slip the chains that hold your mind
And set it loose to run –
Back again to sunny days
When you were in your prime.
Replay once more within your mind
Those days of light and love –
Watch again those happy scenes
Of warmer times long gone.
And play them, like a film,
Across the theatre of your mind
Fresh and crisp, to you now,
As the day you lived them.
Close your eyes and see once more
So clearly in your mind
That young man you used to know
And loved so much it hurt.
In your mind you raise your hand
And reach towards my head
And touch again my laughing face
And look in to my eyes.
Now many years since last we met
And held me to your heart
But no amount of time can wipe
The memories you hold.
You see me as I used to be
And in your mind you still
Picture me as I once was
And to you have stayed.
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Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill
Went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water
Jack said “Please”
Jill said “Yes”
And did what she didn’t ought ’a
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(with acknowledgements)