Sweet Memories

we share memories like old

pocket money sweets,

devouring each flavour

with richly layered laughter,

once we were young boys

who didn’t share,

our weekly choice from

Maggie Chapman’s

penny and tuppenny plates

the week’s hardest task,

fruit salads, blackjacks

aniseed balls, spaceships

acid drops, we were told

they had to last the week

but they never did,

childhood memories

now fill our hearts

and will last as long

as we all have left and

care to share them

Published by grahamrsherwood