‘She’s gone and left me…
I don’t know why…’
A haunting refrain from my teen years;
That was the stuff that made my life full of unendless cheers
They didn’t last long – those girls of then –
And they seemed to pass along, I don’t know when
They arrived, or how long they stayed;
I just turned around and their exits they’d made
An endless stream of final kisses
And each and every one was ‘this is…
The one!’ and then she wasn’t ‘the one’ or ‘there’
Wasn’t being a part of my life to share
Wasn’t answering the phone or replying to notes
Wasn’t gazing adoringly at that 2” x 1 ½” kiosk photograph
Of us crammed together – wasn’t sharing a laugh;
Wasn’t…
Wasn’t…
Wasn’t…
And I could write on for pages and pages about those girls from past ages
But, what would they write about me…
What would Jennifer, Clare, Jaqueline and Ann
Write about me…?
‘Graeme who?’