I REMEMBER

I remember when I was only THREE
And a total stranger ran off with me.

I remember when I was FOUR
a screaming baby,
I wasn't the only one any more.

I remember when I was FIVE
Starting at Musters Rd. Infants School, scared alive.

I remember when I was SIX
Our taxi business went bus
what a fix.

I remember when I was SEVEN
thieves Killed my pet rabbit
I think it went to heaven.

I remember when I was EIGHT,
Real fires in the grate.

I remember when I was NINE,
Playing and skipping with my friends,
Using the (the clothes line).

I remember when I was TEN,
The old garden shed,
We turned into a den.

I remember when I was ELEVEN
Having to go to bed at half past seven.

I remember when I was TWELVE,
My whip and top,
I played with it a lot.

I remember when I was THIRTEEN,
Our first TV, set black and white,
To me, the best I'd seen.

I remember when I was FOURTEEN,
My first boyfriend, what a hunk,
What a dream.

I remember when I was FIFTEEN,
Starting work, earning money,
I was so very keen.

But it all seems so long ago.
It feels like a dream.

© Pat Dring