In memory of Suzy
It was when my FB notifications announced,
It was when my FB notifications announced,
'KMS and 285 others reacted to your photo
on Jersey 80s Fotos & Fun', I felt a deep
appreciation of the beauty of social media,
forgot about the influencers and attention-
seekers, the trolls and cyber-bullies, spambots
seekers, the trolls and cyber-bullies, spambots
and the malicious spread of misinformation.
I felt the joy in other people’s memories
of that early 80s Channel Islands nightclub,
how that photograph of me and two
long lost friends in our twenties tumbled
them towards their own ‘Golden Years’, as
one woman described them, ‘we were all
working, we all had a tan, and we were happy.’
And then a comment, ‘Lynne, that’s my Mum’,
and the reconnecting with the girl I knew
44 years ago, her voice, her laugh, the same
as I remembered, the years falling away
then rebuilding through children, homes,
gardens, the same men who still share our lives.
What more can anyone ask of this world?
Some days we feel blessed. And even on days
when we struggle, we still have those blessings.
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