Between You and Me

WRITTEN FOR SUNDAY SCRIBBLINGS

BETWEEN YOU AND ME

'I' is a subject,'I' does the doing;
The shopping, the eating, the fighting, the wooing.
'Me' is the object that is done to,
'I' can see 'Me' in the mirror, not you.
'Between you and I' sounds really correct
But it isn't , so just try to be circumspect!
'Are you coming with I?' would sound really strange.
If you say 'You and I', make sure that you change!

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TERROR

(A True Account from Long Ago)

I was eight.

Old enough to fear War, 

But not old enough to rationalise.

For weeks we had known War was 'coming'.

Now it had come.

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'The Prime Minister will address the nation'.

That was all it took.

In my eyes, 'it' was upon us.

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I remember rushing out of the house,

And up to the top of our small garden,

To the Bicycle Shed.

I locked myself in.

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Because I knew that words were going to be said

Which would unleash carnage.

And it would be carnage in my street.

Immediately.

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The German troops would march up Connaught Road.

And I would die.

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The emotion I felt was terror.

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My father's bicycle stood up-ended

In the middle of the shed.

A puncture was in mid-repair.

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With a jerk I began to spin the wheel,

Faster, faster, faster,

In an orgy of terror.

It was like running away,

But being trapped.

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At last my father tapped at the door.

'Let me in' he said,

'Everything's all right'.

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And it was.

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But not for Ann Frank.

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