You Know What's A Shame?
Wasted Beauty.
Ever Get The Goosebumps For Something So Beautiful?
Something That Stops You, Dead In Your Tracks?
No Thoughts, No Words, One Feeling.
Awe.
To Be In Awe.
Is Miraculous.
I Didn't Get The Chance To Know You, But I Feel I Do.
We Have A Mouse 'Terrorizing' The House As Auntie Pat Says.
Truth Be Told The Mouse Has Done An Outstanding Job.
It's Made Us Pull Out Old Photo's And Tapes Of 'The Good Old Days'.
More To The Point.
Old Letters.
Turns Out My Nana Bless Her Had A Lodger.
In This Big Old House.
After The Second World War.
No Dates.
But They're Timeless.
A Ratty Old Postcard Starting With.
'Dear Bett And Stan'
I Can't Read Alot Of The Beautifully Written Words.
Then The Old Letters On Thin Worn Paper.
Paper That Could Tell So Many Stories.
This One Starts With.
'30 Aug. Wednesday.
Dear Bett,
Thank You Very Much For Food Parcel, Welcome Letter And The Whitstable Times,
Which Arrived Last Night.'
He Ends His Last Letter With.
'Well Bett I Think That's About All For Now So To Close Once Again Thanks For The Paper,
Love To All,
Nic x x x x x x'
He Then Adds This One Line.
One Line That Stands Out So Much To Me Is.
'P.S I'll Be Twenty On The 3 Oct, Old Age Creeping On?'
That Was His Last Letter.
Who Knows If He Made His Birthday Or Not.
The Sad Thing Is The Letter Outlived That Man, Nic.
Become Timeless.
And Beautiful.
That Man Was Younger Than Me When Writing That From Japan.
You Know What's A Shame?
That Most People Won't See This As Beautiful.
It Falls On Ignorant Eyes.
But I Don't Mean All Of You.
You'll See It Through Bright Eyes.
There's Not Many Who Would Step Up Like That These Days.
Now That's A Shame.
Wasted Lives.
I Don't Think I Need To Explain.
Because This Will Turn Poisonous.
It Will Be My 21st Birthday In 5 Days.
'Old Age Creeping On?' xXx
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