If I Could Travel Back In Time
If I could travel back in time
I'd take your fearful hand and say
'Not long enough' and 'gone too soon' and
'Alex, please don't fly today'.
If I could change their cutting words
(And I don't know what they said to you)
You couldn't block them out down here
But four floors up should do.
I have the Polish postcards still,
You sent from long hot holidays
I remember your mum's Polish sausage
I remember those happier days
You song of witches echoing down
Music from 'The Haunted House'
We shared a stage and played all night
Before your long descent.
If I could close that window now
You'd turn around and I would say
'Not long enough' and 'gone too soon' and
'Alex, please don't fly today'.
About this poem
A memory of a musician, songwriter and beautifully innocent friend, Alexandra, who left us to soon.
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Written on October 02, 2024
Submitted by skywest on February 13, 2024
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 694 |
Words | 137 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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