Instructions

Remember your name...

Trust deams.

Trust your heart and trust your story...

Do not forget your manners.
Do not look back...

~ Neil Gaimen, Instructions (2000)

A poem stuffed with more references than I can identify from my remembered fairy tale trove of olde. Skimmed from long summers of reading on a blanket in the back yard, and dour winters in which I was sausage rolled in my doona. This poem was like flicking through a photo-album from my real childhood. The one where I was too busy reading to find time to smile for the camera.