Mt. Eden Normal Primary School, Auckland NZ. The year was 1971. We were just 10 years old.
For Beverly.
Time was when in a golden age begun I gazed upon an infinite beauty, and at the heart of her constellation in a silk cotton dress a vision was she. I vowed the ends of the earth to follow your heavenly star wherever it led, and to sit beside your desk in your glow but sat my old nemesis in my stead. Bows in your hair and stardust in your eyes rushed my pulse to farthest extremity, but when the Age of Innocence dies lost is the life and joy you gave to me. You were my universe my celestial lass with flowing waves of hair a free spirit - into its magnetic pull in our earthly pass I was a flashing comet in your orbit. Now I feel my pulse and racing heart slowed since I followed you home down Valley Road. But I was just a boy and smitten you see and you were my girl, sweet Beverly. Bows in your hair and stardust in your eyes rushed my pulse to farthest extremity, but when the Age of Innocence dies lost is the life and joy you gave to me. Written: November 1992
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