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GAPS PERVADING

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Notions about longevety. Childishly I intended those thrupences to be discovered in centuries. I didn't grasp the concept of obsolescence.

I have an awful memory. It's sad. Seemingly destroyed by that madman Who, sixty-one years ago, pulled out Without looking,and crashed into my car Sending mine careering towards death. Ha! I've got news for him, wherever, I survived! But you robbed me of some dreams! Dreams that, like all memories, are passive And cannot be completely lived again. But it is the words... sixty-one years ! Who would have thought there'd be so many? Amongst them, through the gaps pervading, Are gems: Memories to be grateful for. The tin box of silver thrupences I hid beneath a floorboard in 1952! Did anyone find it? Or did they rain Down upon heads of demolition men Like angel's tears at all destruction: At things that should have aged and died Naturally, in the most usual and intended way. Gone tomorrow but here today. © Allen Ansell 2024

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