WAS ALL RIGHT 1962

A GIRL DREAMS OF A BOY SHE LIKES AT SCHOOL IN 1962

Shoshana
sat waiting
until her
father had
gone to work;
her mother
was busy
working in
the kitchen
washing up
breakfast things.

Naaman(the
dreamed one
not the real)
stood gazing
at her with
his hazel
coloured eyes.

Don't sit there
wasting time,
you have school
to get to,
her mother
moaned at her.

You're too much
of a dream
thinking girl;
your father
is angry
with the way
that you are,
the mother
then added.

Shoshana
wished the real
Naaman was
in the room
(not the dreamed
one who stood
there smiling).

She got up
and gazed at
her mother.

Just a dream
I had; can't
help dreaming,
she muttered.

Just get off
to school now,
the mother
chided her,
and don't talk
back to me.

Shoshana
walked upstairs
to her room.

Naaman climbed
the stairs just
behind her.

The real one
was at his
own home now
getting dressed
for a dull
day at school,
thinking of
Shoshana
as he had
since he woke
from his dream
in the night.

What they did
in the dream
(not in life)
was all right.