We Can Always Come Back - Tom Rosenthal

We can always come back

Said the mum to the boy

On a beach, was a ploy

And the boy knew

Her words were only words

We were on the beach too

A mother and the girls

At the start of the world

And I was there too

Taking pictures of us all

But I don’t remember pictures

Though I have them to hand

I remember the sand

On your face though

And the shivering from the sea

Carried on a shoulder

Still in a towel

And I still don’t know how

We made it

And I think I’ll never know

Happiness is action

At the end of the day

There was nothing to say

But we all knew

That sleep would be well

You can’t preserve the moments

They move with the air

To the gods of nowhere

But we were all there

And that’s good enough for me