A Yorkshire Poet Poet Free verse

Both We Knew

I see the mist out there where the pier disappears into the sea.
It was fifty years since I last saw this place. The same fifty years I’d not seen thee.

I found the courage to step onto the pier.
I heard the boards creek under foot and in an instance then I knew.

The smell and sounds were all the same.
Like the years gone by I’d never knew.

I saw the magnifying glass that took the old penny coin.
I remembered the smile on your face. The way your hair in the summer sun moved. I remember the sunlight on your face.

They told me that you’d gone away - to foreign shores anew.
You’d built a life under a different sky to the one that once both we knew.

I stand here on the pier where it meets the sea. I stand here and tears form in my eyes for the love that once knew me.

I here footsteps behind the tide coming closer but I hear something from the sea.
I look and watch the waves crash into the pier and I know it’s calling me.

A voice calls in the wind. A voice I know from deep within. I turn to see where it comes from then set like solid stone.

A hand reaches out to me and my eyes follow up the arm. I see a face with concerned eyes and then I see a memory so lovely and so warm.

I struggle to find words come alive, the years crash all around.

Those smiling eyes.
That face I knew.
I have to try…

                             ‘Is it really you’

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