I'D NEVER HAVE LOOKED THERE IN A MILLION YEARS

I’D NEVER HAVE LOOKED THERE IN A MILLION YEARS

I’d never have looked there in a million years

Churning and churning through the great attic mess

A thousand boxes packed full of pointlessness

Millions of life’s  memories packed tightly away

Rarely will any of it see the awful light of day

Until thrown into some skip after I pass away

But what’s this I found in an unexpected place

I’d forgotten I had that! Oh boy! That’s just ace!

I’d never have looked there in a million years

I’d never have looked there in a million years

I’d never have looked there in a million years

Leafing and leafing through box after box

Amongst unlikely detritus it came as a shock

To find that old booklet I’d forgotten I had

But now I can’t find it it’s driving me mad

Becoming obsessive in a way that’s quite sad

I wanted to look at it later so I packed it away

Knowing it would be easily found another day

I’d never have looked there in a million years

I’d never have looked there in a million years

I’d never have looked there in a million years

Searching and searching it’s nowhere in sight

False memories at midnight come burning bright

I cannot rediscover the thing that I found

The place I wouldn’t look has gone to ground

Confusion in my mind will now compound

A place so unlikely it’s now making me cross

Found things then lost seem a much bigger loss

I’d never have looked there in a million years

I’d never have looked there in a million years

I’d never have looked there in a million years

Looking and looking for a place I’d not look

For an envelope containing an unlikely book

If only I could remember the unlikely place

The memory’s fled without leaving a trace

Somewhere I’d never think was a plausible space

I’m now looking for a memory of a thing so unlikely

That I’m churning through boxes almost twice nightly

But I’d never have looked there in a million years

So I never will look there in a million years

MAWH, April 2018