Are They Wearing a Wedding Ring?
this is my age
i used to ‘hassle’ bar staff
for pen and paper
have a kiss in the corner
and when they said, ‘see you later’
call up the number the next day
waiting in the high street
wondering what to say
these days i look
at a person’s face
then i check her finger
no wedding ring?
perhaps i should linger?
relationships have come –
with far more power
it is a short distance between –
moving in and the first bunch of flowers
life plans may not have come true
but all these thirty somethings –
stuck together like single glue
so i think back –
to kissing passionately on the settee
nights out and nights in
holding hands and a head upon their knee
it feels like innocence and fun
we grow up so quickly and suddenly –
we lose that something that makes us young
James Garratt – Saturday 2nd October 2010
Are They Wearing a Wedding Ring? – Saturday 2nd October 2010
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Great post 🙂
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Thank you. I wrote this when I was 35 and ‘single’. I’d found myself in that situation after being married. It was interesting to think about being single back in my teens and twenties compared to my then 30’s. I sort of tried to write about that. It was meant to have a slight trace of humour. Thank you for the comment. Glad you liked it 🙂 James
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