In The Sepia Vibe
¶ 1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 It’s turned quite brown now
¶ 2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 My old school team photograph
¶ 3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 But there I am with long lost mates
¶ 4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 whose names still linger
¶ 5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 together In the sepia vibe
¶ 6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 can this be me at fourteen?
¶ 7 Leave a comment on verse 7 0 another person then – fresh faced naive
¶ 8 Leave a comment on verse 8 0 but on that old leather ball with laces that stung and cut
¶ 9 Leave a comment on verse 9 0 heavy and wet on school match mornings
¶ 10 Leave a comment on verse 10 0 etched in chalk
¶ 11 Leave a comment on verse 11 0 Sloane Grammar Under Fifteens 1962-63
¶ 12 Leave a comment on verse 12 0 oh but I was some winger then – you should have seen me
¶ 13 Leave a comment on verse 13 0 Arjen Robben eat your heart out
¶ 14 Leave a comment on verse 14 0 promise talent hope – my football future before me
¶ 15 Leave a comment on verse 15 0 apparently
¶ 16 Leave a comment on verse 16 0 erratic dangerous crazy but deadly
¶ 17 Leave a comment on verse 17 0 on days when seven still meant outside right
¶ 18 Leave a comment on verse 18 0 and my left foot like Daniel Day Lewis
¶ 19 Leave a comment on verse 19 0 un-stoppable un-compromising
¶ 20 Leave a comment on verse 20 0 thwacking smacking and whacking them in from ev’ry angle
¶ 21 Leave a comment on verse 21 0 more often than not against that old flat crossbar
¶ 22 Leave a comment on verse 22 0 just four inches of wood between me and glory
¶ 23 Leave a comment on verse 23 0 how wide they were then!
¶ 24 Leave a comment on verse 24 0 but when it came to the school team
¶ 25 Leave a comment on verse 25 0 it was swallows and stalwarts –
¶ 26 Leave a comment on verse 26 0 not quite good enough to make the grade
¶ 27 Leave a comment on verse 27 0 but decent enough for reserve
¶ 28 Leave a comment on verse 28 0 and so it was week in week out you’d find me
¶ 29 Leave a comment on verse 29 0 on misty rainy Saturday mornings
¶ 30 Leave a comment on verse 30 0 Tulse Hill to Westminster
¶ 31 Leave a comment on verse 31 0 carrying kit bags offering oranges
¶ 32 Leave a comment on verse 32 0 and filling in for way-laid linesman
¶ 33 Leave a comment on verse 33 0 until that one sweet day our winger went A.W.O.L
¶ 34 Leave a comment on verse 34 0 and euphoria – I was in!
¶ 35 Leave a comment on verse 35 0 the game itself a blur no less of am I really here?
¶ 36 Leave a comment on verse 36 0 a welcome to the Big Brother House type day
¶ 37 Leave a comment on verse 37 0 but give or take a rocky start suddenly out of the blue
¶ 38 Leave a comment on verse 38 0 this perfect ball flew over waist height to me
¶ 39 Leave a comment on verse 39 0 and right there bang on the edge
¶ 40 Leave a comment on verse 40 0 of the proverbial 18 yard box
¶ 41 Leave a comment on verse 41 0 I just let fly let it rip like some great fart
¶ 42 Leave a comment on verse 42 0 in a rowdy dressing room
¶ 43 Leave a comment on verse 43 0 but what a volley – dream on Ronaldinho!
¶ 44 Leave a comment on verse 44 0 to be truthful
¶ 45 Leave a comment on verse 45 0 with three strikers better placed and screaming
¶ 46 Leave a comment on verse 46 0 it could have gone anywhere some risk indeed
¶ 47 Leave a comment on verse 47 0 but not this time – no – it hit the net deliciously
¶ 48 Leave a comment on verse 48 0 in a hello Roy Of The Rovers
¶ 49 Leave a comment on verse 49 0 are you watching Gianfranco Zola
¶ 50 Leave a comment on verse 50 0 freeze frame of synchronicity
¶ 51 Leave a comment on verse 51 0 and I learned something profound that day
¶ 52 Leave a comment on verse 52 0 sometimes you have to be selfish and greedy
¶ 53 Leave a comment on verse 53 0 in this football game we call life
¶ 54 Leave a comment on verse 54 0 but I still like to think – in a humble
¶ 55 Leave a comment on verse 55 0 ‘long forgotten hero’ type way
¶ 56 Leave a comment on verse 56 0 that greed and passion took over
¶ 57 Leave a comment on verse 57 0 and me and my left foot …..and my left foot and I
¶ 58 Leave a comment on verse 58 0 we did it just the two of us for the team
¶ 59 Leave a comment on verse 59 0 allegedly!
¶ 60 Leave a comment on verse 60 0 and that was it – game over – acceptance
¶ 61 Leave a comment on verse 61 0 they carried me to a man that day to the centre circle
¶ 62 Leave a comment on verse 62 0 no school rag back then – but if there had been
¶ 63 Leave a comment on verse 63 0 it would have proclaimed loudly
¶ 64 Leave a comment on verse 64 0 “Thomas Scorcher Sinks St.Cuthbert’s ”
¶ 65 Leave a comment on verse 65 0 and to this day I’m convinced
¶ 66 Leave a comment on verse 66 0 It was that pivotal moment – that decision
¶ 67 Leave a comment on verse 67 0 which secured my place in the side
¶ 68 Leave a comment on verse 68 0 but more importantly still
¶ 69 Leave a comment on verse 69 0 given my off-field school behaviour
¶ 70 Leave a comment on verse 70 0 that goal
¶ 71 Leave a comment on verse 71 0 probably saved me from expulsion…
¶ 72 Leave a comment on verse 72 0 but hey……. that’s another poem!
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