Boots

Tony Blair resigned today

To be exact ’07 10^th May

What was it like in that ten years?

For better, for worse. Tears?

Full employment boosted skills.

When my late husband was taken ill

No longer then was healthcare free.

I became his nurse at 73.

He was my senior by ten full years.

Aged 92 he passed away.

In grief and sorrow and in tears

With a notebook, biro pen that day.

His biography I undertook

Then I found Denise’s groups

It made me hone, learn and read,

Research into my Irish roots

Creative writing is a means

Commuting even to the Bard himself

He who traded in leather goods

In gloves, though not in leathern boots.

Rose Lynch

10-May-2007