A MEMORY

Spiralling stairs

Led to the sea.

And beside the sea,

You sat, 

With green enticing eyes,

And smile

As wide as that ocean.

I still remember

Your kiss.

We never met again;

And of course,

I never told my brother,

Who dropped me off,

At the city roundabout

At 9am,

To walk till 5...

How could he believe

A word of the world

I explored,

By Edinburgh's shores?

Walking to Leith,

Taking those steps,

Beneath the shops,

Through shaded trees,

To the countryside:

And daring to kiss

A stranger who,

Till this day,

I still miss!