Neville

Another South West Coastal Path Miracle

Another South West Coastal Path Miracle

 

Was it some bizarre coincidence perhaps

he happened to stumble upon those

same tiny blue flowers, three days in a row

You surely know the ones I mean, yes those

that always seem to grow

so damn close to the edge like that ..

 Well it was there, he recalled she sometimes wore

those same blue flowers in her hair

and in that moment, he just knew he had to go on

So he picked himself up and brushed himself down

making sure to get rid of the dust from

his old canvass shoes and the green corduroy jacket

Yes, the same one she bought him all those years ago

then had a good look around, and low and behold,

there beside the empty shells of discarded plovers eggs

In a tiny scraped hollow, somewhere high on the coastal path

close to where they once loved and lived ..

He found the missing half of her old broken gold cross ..