Down in the bar they are playing Keith Michell.

The Man of La Mancha oozes out behind

The football scores and chat of ancient cars

From anoraks who've gathered in like mind.

But I am back with Marriage Encounter and 

That moment when I started to realise

We were more than just a pair in love

- Like Romeo & Juliet, all dewy-eyed.

We were united in a way we find

Created all across the natural world

Where love - too small a word for what I feel -

Shines out as if it had been hurled

            Into eternity for all to see

            That there is nothing else but you and me.

Brian Hick March 09

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