By Fr Gerard Garrigan

(1988, Wexford, Ireland)

You turned and waved
Nimble limbs and sparkling eyes
All giggles, dimples, smiles
And hair in soft red tresses
You laughed at us who’d
all grown old
I did not tell you
For you would not believe
I once was young like you.

The Girl I Left Behind Me by Eastman Johnson - painting of a girls with long flowing hair out in the landscape
‘The girl I left behind me ‘ Eastman Johnson,Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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