Fresher's Ball

I drove Bobbie down to university

With the Rover bursting at the seams

We brunched in the halls of res canteen

Then I got on my way

Waving me goodbye from the steps of her building

She shrinks into the shudders of the rearview

Tears begin to fall on the outskirts of Leeds

I am missing her already

I stopped for a coffee at Scotch Corner

I called to see if she was doing okay

She gently laughed at my foolishness

Don't worry

Watching Match of the Day that night, I was bereft

The house seemed to hold its breath

I went out to smoke in the garden

There was a hedgehog drinking from the pond

I felt happy watching it make its way

Into the rhubarb, through the dewy blades

I must have drifted off with the opening credits

Of The Fog and had the most disturbing dream

We were running through the maze

Away from the drooling Minotaur

Dawn arrives, rosy on the Roman blind

Just before the monster can devour us

I quickly grab a shower

And head to five-a-side