In Search of an Education

Grandad Says

When Grandad was a lad
he walked to school.

'Everyone did
in those days.'

Over cobbles.
Through cornfields.

Up a dusty track.

The long trek
in search of an education.

A hundred miles, he reckons.
There and back.

'And uphill.'

'Both ways.'

(He says).


when i was a lad


Poem copyright Bernard Young 2011