I Remember

I REMEMBER I remember when I was only THREE And a total stranger ran off with me. I remember when I was FOUR a screaming baby, I wasn’t the only one, any more. I remember when I was FIVE Starting at Musters Rd. Infants School West Bridgford, scared alive. I remember when I was SIX Our taxi business went bust what a fix. I remember when I was SEVEN Thieves killed my pet rabbit, I think it went to heaven. I remember when I was EIGHT, Real coal fires in the grate. I remember when I was NINE, Playing skipping with my friends, Using the (the clothes line.) I remember when I was TEN, The old garden shed, We turned it into a den. I remember when I was ELEVEN Having to go to bed at half past seven I remember when I was TWELVE, My whip and top I played with it a lot. I remember when I was THIRTEEN, Our first TV, set, black and white, to me, the best I’d seen. I remember when I was FOURTEEN, My first boyfriend, what a hunk, What a dream. I remember when I was FIFTEEN, Starting work, earning money, I was so very keen. I remember it was all so very long ago, It feels like a dream.