Beyond The Dee Poem by jim hogg

Your rosy cheeks and blue eyes
each morning as I passed
the open door on High Street
'til I knew I had to ask.

A rebel blonde in levis
with a fearless attitude,
we met beside a bunker
on the golf course by the wood.

Below us lay Kirkcudbright,
beyond it flowed the Dee.
The Dhoon was sealed in shadow,
further down towards the sea.

And you were quite the vision
with your flares, and flaxen locks
aflame in that long summer
when the sunshine never stopped

Love came without a fanfare,
too stealthily to see.
we hadn't time to feel it
we were busy being free,

And Ziggy serenaded
almost every move we made,
from Brighouse to my home town,
from the Dhoon to your front gate.

Those months we spent together
keep on climbing up the charts
I don't remember trying -
it was easy from the start.

And you were first to see it
that it didn't have to end
you saw some kind of future
but I walked away instead.

From time to time I wonder,
and I hope your life's been sweet,
but think about you always
when I walk down your old street.

15 01 18

(song)