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Watching Old Footage

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Cheshire Poet Laureate

This is how it will be

You will open your eyes
in the morning, and the world
will run to you in its best suit.  

Trees will make shadow-plays

with their fingers. Creatures

will call out their names.

 

You will open your ears to music

no-one has heard before, voices of those

you love and those who love you,

 

the highest note and the deep note

which is only a stirring in the earth. You will

open your mouth, and the things you say

 

will be old words in new shapes.

Your stories will weave all the threads

into one cloth. You will open

 

your hand, scatter bread for birds,

give to those who have nothing to give.

Your hand will take hold of another hand

 

and walk into a new world,

which is your world, and our world, and we

will be behind you.

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