Jane Reflects On a Long Ago Love

She stands

by the small

church graveyard

where once he and she

stood sixty odd years before

but now she stands alone

gazing around the graves

listening to the birds

in hedgerows sing

as others had sung

those years ago.

In her mind

seeing him beside her

holding hands

talking about the birds

or church or school.

But then he disappears

as he had

those many years before

him and his family

moved away for ever

and an eternal day.