SOME DAY, ALL OF THESE MEMORIES WILL BE LOST

SOME DAY, ALL OF THESE MEMORIES WILL BE LOST

Some day, all of these memories will be lost -

Not the big ones, perhaps, but all of the little moments

That add up to a life – The Disney Robin Hood T-Shirt -

Its head appeared in that impossibly cheerful school photograph;

The huge metal climbing frame in the Big Hall which shrank with time;

Sorting out the pond in the infants playground, and how small

Their rain shelter seemed after being in the Junior Playground one;

Short trousers; Eleventh birthday bumps ending in a broken

Collar bone; The fear of ending up in prickly bush; Painted pitches;

Foot and mouth at the farm; Being asked if I was Welsh;

Shiny silver discs in the mud – the pig farm now all houses;

Small tragedies and minor embarrassments which still resurface

Some day, all of these memories will be lost -

Not the big ones, perhaps, but all of the little moments

That add up to a life

Some day, all of these memories will be lost -

Not the big ones, perhaps, but all of the little moments

That add up to a life – Helping Arnold to lag the pipes in an

Impossibly dark attic; The smell of the Sunday School kitchen;

Running along that corridor behind the stage; The coffee bar the

Adults all built with its grey/black tiles; Painting a banner there;

Clutching my “Action Man” Doctor in Yugoslavia; Asking what

“The Dambusters” were; Older, with big hair, wearing that Sergio

Tacchini shirt I won from the Daily Mail for a drawing of John McEnroe;

Auntie Nancy’s sparkling floor; A Carp Pond; The fascination of a Lava Lamp:

That impressive hallway; Aeroplanes hanging on strings; Uncle John’s

Model Railway room; Holiday Star Trek, Flash Gordon, Robinson Crusoe

Some day, all of these memories will be lost -

Not the big ones, perhaps, but all of the little moments

That add up to a life

Martin A W Holmes, October 2016