A POEM FOR PAUL by LYNN KILPATRICK

I waited for hours in the bitter cold

To purchase a book from a store

Queuing up for hours with others

Even though my Nan asked ‘what do you want to do that for?’

No one can understand

Except the others in the queue

The reason I have done this

Is quite simply YOU.

The things you have done for this city

And the career you have achieved

With hard work you did it

And also because you believed.

I admire you for this and more

You have got a gift that is so rare

And once again you have put Liverpool first

This shows us that you care.

I missed out on the ‘Beatlemania’

Being born in June ‘67

But started following your career

When I became eleven.

Your pop songs and your classical works

Have over the years inspired me

To overcome all my problems

And to write poetry.

So this is why I waited

So I could say thank you

By writing this special poem

And waiting in the cold to catch the flu.

But it was all worth it

For it might have made my one of my ambitions come true

Not to stand in the freezing cold

But to finally get to meet you.