Benny Reflected 1962.

A dull sky and morning.

Benny gazed 

from his bedroom window.

His younger brother

was already downstairs

having breakfast; 

he could hear music

from the radio.

School soon

his last few months

before leaving.

Juliet was leaving too

had a job lined up 

in the town in some store.

He smiled recalling

the first time he’d seen her

on the school bus

and how she 

kept looking at him

and smiling.

Now they were soon

Working in different places:

she in town and he 

in the local garage. 

His mother called him

for breakfast.

He sighed 

and went downstairs.

That first kiss

that Christmas

while carol singing,

beneath moonlight

and chilling night.