CHANGES...
poem by:
Frank Hornby .
Written
on Aug 28, 2021
"My life has changed, in so many different ways... as I look back to those very early innocent days. I had so much fun playing out...in that battered old street.. where kids had to be agile...and quick on their feet.. My earliest memories are of just me, and my mum.. where we lived with my Auntie...in her run down Liverpool slum.. Until it was time to leave old Liverpool...off to new Kirkby we went.. to a third floor flat...my mum thought it was from heaven sent.. I was seven years old...a new life about to start.. ...home was now Kirkby...but Liverpool was still in my heart.. I became football crazy....Everton FC to the bone... most of my mates were the same...so I wasn't alone.. Changes in my life, came when I'd just turned fourteen.. he said that he wasn't my real dad...what did that mean?... It really blew my mind...but fuck it! I said... I tried to ignore it...but I couldn't get it out of my head!.. I carried on living my life...with a name that was a lie!.. It toughened me up...I tried hard not to cry.. Eventually I left school..and found myself with a job.. labouring in a wood factory...earning a measly few bob... ..and finding it hard to settle in work...I constantly got the sack.. I wasn't happy with anything...when I think now, looking back... I was going through changes...with my head forever in a whirl.. ..Then suddenly, she was there!...I'd found the perfect girl!.. My world, it changed drastically...this girl gave me new hope.. Now my life had real meaning...I thought together we will cope.. Life's been so full of changes...marriage, and children..the best!.. A long, and winding road...really did put us both to the test. But together we've walked every inch, of that meandering highway.. I know that I couldn't have made it...if it was only done my way."
Tags: Love, Sad, Happy,
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E.J. Waling commented on Sep 13, 2021 at 11:40pm
Wonderful heartfelt write. Well done. Love happy endings.
Frank Hornby .
commented on Sep 14, 2021 at 3:18pm
Thanks John...I couldn't be happier....greetings from Liverpool...to Boston...
Christopher Russon
commented on Sep 24, 2021 at 9:43am
Really good poem Frank .The way things were.
Frank Hornby .
commented on Sep 25, 2021 at 12:36pm
Thanks Chris...yeah...at the time there was nothing going for me....it takes the right girl to sort your head out....and that was 54yrs ago!...thanks again...
Keith Jepson
commented on Oct 04, 2021 at 4:47am
Good one Frank, I can relate to that, I had a tough childhood, brought up in children's homes where they didn't 'spare the rod'.... By coincidence, I also lived in a small village named South 'Kirkby' (near Pontefract. I too met a lass and married in 1967 '54 years' take care KEITH
Frank Hornby .
commented on May 16, 2022 at 5:44pm
Thanks for your comment Keith mate....sorry to hear of your early life experiences it seems as if it was common back then...but it sounds like it done you no harm ....I need to read another of your wonderful poems mate it's been a long time....I hope you are well Keith...sorry this reply is a bit late...
E.J. Waling
commented on May 16, 2022 at 11:33pm
Yup, they (if you find the right one) can make all the difference! Great write!
Frank Hornby .
commented on May 17, 2022 at 7:05am
Thanks again John....I hope all is well with you in the USA....
