Would you dress it up in gold,
when it’s made of rust?
Build it to the stars,
when we return to dust?
But if not this,
then what?
In this little snapshot,
life is all,
all we’ve got.
Sometimes,
rust makes the best instruments.
(c) Paul Andrew Sneddon
A ten-pound note, a mother’s love, and the memories it carries.
A Johnny Cash covers band walks into a familiar Ayrshire bar and turns the place inside out.
A man at the water’s edge, and what pulls him back.
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