Friday Fiction: If And When
Hand-in-hand
Here’s a Friday Fiction, written by one of my author friends.
I read John’s poem in an issue of eSpin, the newsletter of the Scottish Pagan Federation. I was struck by the different ways it could be interpreted, and its impact through brevity, so contacted John and got his permission to include it here.
If And When
If I could link and hold the thoughts of me and you
As hand-in-hand and mind-in-mind we used to do
Then I would be complete again.
When I can send one perfect view from me to you
That opens lanes to lovely hills in youth we knew
Then my heart is intact again.
If I could stir my wits in joyous links to you
To speed shared memories of old ways we flew
Then my mind is fulfilled again.
When I join where you are now in joyful space
Together anew we will be free to roam or race
Blazing joys of youth again.
© John R Evans, 13 August 2024
About John
John R Evans is old and disorganised. He wrote some poems in his mid-20s, none very good. His next effort at poem-writing was when he was recovering from an aortic valve replacement in Edinburgh RI in 2023. He decided to rewrite a poem by Dylan Thomas, changing the masculine to the feminine and the ‘rage’ into gentleness.
He was born in South Wales in 1938 and came to Scotland in 1972. He is working on his next poem, which is supposed to be erudite and funny. He is also writing the last part of a four-part short novel.
Very moving