Sunday 7 November 2021

Was It Really Like That?

 

Based on a set of five essays on memory
as broadcast on BBC Radio 3 - 26
th Jan 2018

In muddled games of 'hide and seek'
Announcing past stuff I recall
Recollecting states of hand me downs
Where I am never sure at all

Conversations in my childhood
My only clue those photographs
A comic book of joke existences 
Long day summer blue-sky laughs

Now that I come to think of it
As more and more I try to do
These misty steamed up memories
No longer let me think them through

How do I know what makes me up
Among my route maps misdirected
Like headlines of my past passed by
In cutting rooms of things rejected

A shopping bag less missing items
Where absent minds can’t repossess  
Something needed from that other room
I know not what and cannot guess

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