The child inside
\nby cricketjeff on April 29, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nHis memories were worth just half a crown
\nA silver coin his fingers had worn flat
\nThat night the summer fair had come to town
\nBut mother hadn’t given time for that
\nThe gallopers called louder than the keys
\nTheir happy tune was calling on the breeze<\/p>\n
Too soon his pocket money disappeared
\nAnd now his pension trickles out the same
\nBut when he holds that coin his vision’s cleared
\nAnd Jimmy not James Johnstone is his name
\nInside his head he paints an old tableau
\nHe’d swear he sees himself from long ago<\/p>\n
By now it’s just a worn out silver disc
\nAnd wouldn’t buy a single practice scale
\nThe funfair had been worth a little risk
\nA slipper maybe, not a trip to jail
\nHe smiles inside remembering the day
\nAnd all the other mem’ries tucked away<\/p>\n
Though times grew hard he’d never had to spend
\nThe coin that should have paid his teacher’s time
\nReminded him of every childhood friend
\nAnd made him blush remembering his crime
\nWhen he sits down to play he’s sat beside
\nThe boy he used to be, who lives inside<\/p>\n
Piano lessons, Tuesdays after school
\nThen Army days and playing for a song
\nHis buddies there to act the giddy fool
\nAt last the whole platoon would sing along
\nAnd all the time that silver half\u00a0 a crown
\nTo mend his smile whenever he was down<\/p>\n
Before she died he told his Mum the tale
\nShe laughed and said the teacher told on him
\nThe fair had been more fun that Miss McHale
\nHis Mother’s eyes said she agreed with Jim
\nFor half a crown he bought a perfect day
\nThere’s many ways that you can learn to play
\n Author notes
\nVenus and Adonis stanzas (Shakespearean sixains)<\/p>\n
I may replace with something totally different …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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