Dónall Dempsey - Chasing Me! (for Lynn)

The boy
in the photograph

is all of six
or I don't know

...7?

There is delight &
devilment
in his eyes.

He smiles.

'Come! '
(he insists)
'Come! '

'Let's play!
behind that out of focus
haystack! '

...at the edge of the world
not included
in the photograph.

I take
his hand
in mine

enter this
our world

that lies unseen
behind

the cropped photograph.

A world
I thought

I had left
behind

forever

chasing now
my six year old self

in my mind

to the back of beyond.

Dónall Dempsey

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