Lennon's Shadow

Led to a chair by Miss Honey,
It’s my first day at school.
While we play Cowboys and Indians,
John and Yoko are calling for peace.

When I reach senior school
I’m set my first homework.
John’s imagining there’s no afterlife;
But first I need to know more.

Mother dies three years after John.
I catch a fringe show about his work -
Ideas, hopes and ideals.
In the rawness of loss, I start to listen.

Thirty years on, retired,
I have time to reflect.
John sings of domestic retreat;
Now we are in complete harmony.