The suit I’d purchased for twenty-five quid
all I could afford at the time
just after my twentieth birthday
my life waiting there on the line
The tie was one of my fathers’
as were the shoes on my feet
His passing was five years too early
to see his son’s wedding complete
Now forty-one years have surrendered
themselves to the life we have led
since that day way back in seventy-nine
when Sally and Jeremy wed
And our love it grows ever stronger
kindred soulmates we are both as one
our life just one big adventure
since that day when it was begun
©Jemverse
Sal & Jem’s wedding day – 7th July 1979 [Photo: Josse Davis – Jem’s best man]
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