A time to look back on
A time to look forward
A song to sing sweetly
Whose words make us mourn
When a shadow lies heavy
When in winter the reflex
Of a skate cutting circles
Across ice which is melting
Sends a shiver through bones
No longer so sturdy.
When living’s less easy
The sound of a lyric
Fills you with longing
For a time which is over
Which the young see so newly
And the old feel the pain
When they hear it again
And again and again.
©Terry Hodgson2020
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