Falling In Love Finally In Takaka Poem by Keith Shorrocks Johnson

Coming down yet again into Takaka

I saw the pub where we took a small room

And made love after you had handily

Beaten a couple of the locals at pool.



I marvelled then at your confidence:

Trusting so deeply in my easy smile

Content already that this was it

The end of the road for two drifters.



Fish and chips and a jug or so of beer:

Things were simpler in the old days

A very ordinary blue Toyota Corolla

No house, no kids, just enough dollars.



You told me ‘I don't talk that much

I don't have that much to say

But I really like you and think

That you are a good person'.



A pretty-rare girl - a man whisperer

Meeting my flighty charm with calm

Seeing so many good things ahead

Committed to us being ever together.



And for once, I listened to the silence

Sensing that acceptance was everything

And that there was little else worth saying

Picking up on quiet beauty being quite enough.