YOUR FOOTBALL SHIRT.

YOUR FOOTBALL SHIRT.

A Poem by Terry Collett
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ON SEEING MY LATE SON'S FRAMED FOOTBALL SHIRT.

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Your Manchester United
football shirt
hangs framed
on the wall:
Ole and number 20
show through the glass.

I remember
you wearing it,
your body
filling out the cloth,
giving life to it,
your name
and number
worn proud
amongst the family,
or out in the crowd.

Now your shirt
hangs there
silent and still
behind the glass.

I wonder if it
still retains
some aspect of you,
some particles
like sparkles
that remain long after
like memories residing
in the shirt's soul.

Your brother put it there,
sealed in the frame,
your number 20
and Ole
your shortened name,
out of love and grief,
wanting it
to always be
in sight, part of you,
inside, like a light
in the mind's
dark night.

© 2014 Terry Collett


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Tears are shed in sharing your grief but also in hope that the love your remaining children and the others in your life, to whom you mean so much, will somehow lighten the burden of this great loss...we love you Terry...keep writing...with each writing comes another glimpse of Ole!
I can see him wearing #20.....


Posted 11 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Terry Collett

11 Years Ago

Thank you, Penlady



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Tears are shed in sharing your grief but also in hope that the love your remaining children and the others in your life, to whom you mean so much, will somehow lighten the burden of this great loss...we love you Terry...keep writing...with each writing comes another glimpse of Ole!
I can see him wearing #20.....


Posted 11 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Terry Collett

11 Years Ago

Thank you, Penlady

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Terry Collett
Terry Collett

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Terry Collett has been writing since 1971 and published on and off since 1972. He has written poems, plays, and short stories. He is married with eight children and eight grandchildren. on January 27t.. more..