“In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest
where no-one sees you, but
sometimes I do, and
that sight becomes this art.”
― Rumi

Monday, December 08, 2025

Statutory declaration

As you fill your Hello Kitty 
school bag with your flowery hat 
and your giggles 

As the house overflows 
from too many vague 
animal shapes and squiggles

As you look at me - your 

pet Gruffalo with an air 

of bemused curiosity 


(For I am still more a clown 

than a hero 

and perhaps will be 

- quite happily -

for ever more)


I think of the days 

before you

Before I knew

you were a part 

of my whole 


And let me assure you 

and all else who would listen


You were preceded 

in this world 

by a love story

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