December 1992 – Written Friday 10th January 2020 (Aged 44)

December 1992

i went back to december 1992
and i looked at –
what i had written
in days when i was seventeen
and i wrote ‘rock ‘n’ roll’ poetry
days when i knew,
laura and maria
and i hung onto their every word
who knows where they are
since then i have not heard
i went back to that time
all those years ago
to look at a version of me
buried under many many years
i was fragile
and dripping with fears
i was post school
and learning origami using shears
i was making modernist sculptures
out of my teenage tears
those days when i was seventeen
and, just starting out
when the world opened up to me
and time seemed so dense
i lived those days in absolute feeling
perhaps it was all rather too intense
i went back to december 1992
shy, young, insecure but well meant
those teenage days seem so far away
and almost, too easily spent


James Garratt – Friday 10th january 2020


Seventeen year old me and poetry from December 1992 here
https://theboybehindtheglasses.com/category/poems-1992/poems-december-1992/


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https://theboybehindtheglasses.com/category/poems-and-writing-2020/