Caverstede Road nursery, our Eden
Starting out together like Eve plus one.
You were the flaxen-haired Aphrodite
I hoped to be Adonis, just for fun
Swift advance through lower school together
The same year, the same class, adjoining desks
Robert Hill performed our playground wedding
I was fidgety, you were statuesque
Inseparable, we were young love's dream,
The Princess and the Arabian thief
Outstretched arms capturing our tomorrows,
No reason to lose hope in our beliefs.
Singly, we moved on to different schools
The heartbreak of enforced separation
Quickly I learned of melancholic grief
And the detriment of isolation
Reunited, rejoined, we were restored
Yet that once previous sparkle had waned
Different challenges frustrated us
Physically, mentally, we were drained
Years flew by, ominous dark clouds gathered,
A harbinger that love's labours had lost,
I hadn't realised that we had finished,
Clueless as a wandering albatross.
Remembrances, like faded pictures
Blur frail memories as those moments pass
Once detailed, now lost in the sands of time
We still seek to peer through rose-tinted glass
I've written widely of halcyon days,
Putative memories sing me soft songs,
Apollo's lyre has often been quiet
though the drumbeat of life and love prolongs
It's nearing sixty years since we first met
I've revisited many lows and highs
What struck me is, with just one exception,
Subsequent loves are just you in disguise
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