While Drowning off Padliegh Hill
I doubt,
after all this time, you will ever
understand
just how insignificant I then felt
or quite simply
terribly overshadowed and small
Smaller even
and less important than that old
gilt framed
knot tying achievement award
that still sits
to the right-hand side of my now
late great
grandfather’s old writing desk ..
Which for some
reason, I was reminded of while
drowning and
desperately trying to crawl out
through some
rich kids rigid red plastic tube ..
Invariably stolen
from the playground of some
local school
which had been thrown in the
deep end of a
swimming pool off Padliegh Hill ..