First Poem by Kevin Eaglesfield

We were both born in 1995,
Me at the age of 28.
Shoved aside before I
Me, me, me'd for ever.
Someone else to think about.
Someone else to be scared about,
And proud about, and glad about.
And daft about.
I used to watch you while you slept,
Just to be sure.
I suppose we all do that.
Imagined every tiny working,
As though with x-ray eyes,
And knew the proof that
There's more to life and death.
My heart was your swaddling clothes.
I told you the world,
And cried as I lullabyed you
Because you existed,
And I'd grown another bit inside.
My own big bang blew the universe sideways,
And rearranged it
With a new sun in it's centre.