It’s interesting how life changes. After a tough year, I turned 19 and things began to get a lot better. That was mostly because of the beginning of a life-changing relationship with my future wife, Sharon. It started from a negative situation, but it’s a great example that good can begin anywhere.
Sharon is actually my cousin, so I had known her throughout my life. With her being two years younger I used to spend all my time with my three other cousins who were closer to my age.
It wasn’t until my father died and I saw Sharon walk into the room where we were in mourning that I realized, this young girl at seventeen had bloomed into a fully developed babe!
She came over to my parent’s house a few times more to comfort my mum and there we spoke and got along well. One day I decided to invite her over to the place I had recently moved into with several friends. My looking forward to meeting her turned into being a little pissed off when she turned up very late.
She was so late that when she finally arrived, like an upset child, I was about to tell her to forget it. However, I discovered that I’d stupidly given her the wrong address! And that, as it turned out, was the night our relationship began.
A couple of years later we got married and now forty years on I find her just as much a babe as I did then, and I am just as happy and in love with this wonderful woman as I was that year it all began.
My poetry book ‘It’s a Funny Thing, Life’ is dedicated to my beautiful and intelligent wife, and this is a poem I think sums her up well:
Sharon’s Around
There’s stirring in the trees,
Quiet, I hear the sound;
It must be that Sharon,
Yes, Sharon is around.
A beautiful woman,
Has arrived back in town;
It must be that Sharon,
Yes, Sharon is around.
Things are now on the up,
Suddenly hope abounds;
It must be that Sharon,
Yes, Sharon is around.
My body keeps leaping,
Like an excited hound;
It must be that Sharon,
Yes, Sharon is around.
I’m told a dear woman,
Has said something profound;
It must that be Sharon,
Yes, Sharon is around.
There’s high expectancy,
Something is going down;
It must be that Sharon,
Yes, Sharon is around.
People can’t stop smiling,
When usually they frown;
It must be that Sharon,
Yes, Sharon is around.
Fireworks crazily
Scorching the open ground;
It must be that Sharon,
Yes, Sharon is around.
So when you see me happy,
Heart beginning to pound;
It must be that Sharon,
Yes, Sharon is around!
