Time To Recall

Time To Remember

The fire is bright

The lights are low

No sounds divert

My mind begins to glow

Early recall flooding back

Chapter one unfolds

Vivid images enter a vacant mind

I trapped my ankle, two years old

The Sixties began their swing

Short-trousered innocence started school

No more soothing breast of mum

Lessons, timetables, endless rules

Man was on the Moon

I still trod the path of learning

Into Secondary Modern’s caste

I was poured, still ever yearning

The yoke of honest labour

Man still earnt the crust

I began my working journey

Rearranging worthless dust

Here and now the fire still glows

Six decades, I cannot do again

Some in darkness now forever buried

Yet  dear, sweet memories still remain