A love in verse

Memories

1996-10-01
Performed by

You beside me on the balcony

The dark Aegean sea at dawn

And ouzo and water and cigarettes

And knowing beyond the blazing braziers

You were among ten thousand as we played.

And seeing Brentford from above – our

Own dear town, our yours-and-mine town – 

What memories! And thinking of you and our love – 

What memories to come! 


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No Affront

There’s a word which to be blunt

Means love to me – but others hunt

A chaster word to bear the brunt...

Naïve?

We’re made for love and we’ve retained

That childhood dream despite the care

And hard frustrations that have rained...