Wednesday, 30 April 2025

Love in Dire Straits


Day Thirty


Backseat midnight car to Cornwall,

Romeo to Juliet lays out 

Just that the time was wrong.

Devouring midnight down the years,

I never quite got my timing right.

A friend never had this education.

No wonder he's getting divorced;

He never learned how to fall in love.





1 comment:

  1. i read the poem before looking at the title and Dire Straits *immediately* popped into mind. then the title ! your pen succinctly captured that essense. ~

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