This is the story
they'll tell their Grandkids,
so honest and genuine,
no need to convince.
The wholly credible,
utterly incredible
post-modern
pre-Tinder,
pre-kinder,
post-Cinder-ella
today's rags to riches
moving a mile when they
aimed for inches.
Rose now calls this,
“The best summer of her life”
you can see why, now
married, content and a wife,
and it all started
outside of a pub,
you'll be pleased to
know, not where she met her hub.
I was fresh back from a
winter abroad,
of hearing those
stories, Rose was well bored -
I suppose I must admit
there's only so long
'This one time in
Poland' stories can go on-
anyway, where was I? Oh
yes!
Outside of a pub in
Guisborough I guess.
And we were walking,
and talking,
about the big and the
small,
and the wild, and the
wonderful,
about life and high
walls
that confine and
restrict
your ability to fly,
and Rose felt closed up
and just, “Whyyyyyy?”
And that girl had
dreams of touring the world,
with a brand of music;
fresh and yet heard,
and I felt the sigh of
her heart as she said,
“I just need a sign
for what I'm to do next.”
Well I was feeling
super wise-
I guess I'd learned
from my travels, or something, I surmise,
so I turned to my
little sister, utterly perplexed,
“You don't need a
sign, just do it!” I said.
“Do you expect a
placard to fall from the sky,
to hit you so hard that
you can't deny,
the next move that you
need to make?
You'll know what to do
with the next step you take!”
At this moment I
noticed a sign myself,
you'd think I'd have
seen it before, but that can't be helped,
and I read it aloud,
“Open Mic every Wednesday...
Rose you should go in
and ask if you can play!”
Well you wouldn't
believe the pushing she needed,
but I waited outside as
my advice she heeded,
and later I found out
that her eyes were greeted
with a sign reading,
you wouldn't believe it,
“If you were waiting
for a sign, this is it.”
And so those words on
the interior of a pub,
were revelation to her,
and - spoiler alert- led to true love.
The next Wednesday Rose
was trembling with nerves,
but I vowed that I
would go along with her,
and that was the best
decision we ever made,
because after that day,
ever Wednesday we played
a set of three songs,
two originals, one cover;
we came alive on that
stage, who needed a lover?
Well...actually, we
can't have been doing that very long
when Rose heard word
from Dan that he wanted to
come along.
This
was out of the ordinary! I mean, we'd last heard from,
who
we'd always referred to by his full name 'Daniel Skillcorn',
when
we were both still at school,
well
college for me, but still,
what
could have fuelled,
this
sudden interest in performing on stage,
when
we hadn't seen the lad for an age?
So
the next Wednesday we arrived at The Ship
and
who had arrived before us, you guessed it, Dan did.
Well,
funny, he never did go up and sing,
but
that didn't matter to Rose since she was falling.
She
continued to go to Open Mic alone,
when
I was away travelling in the land of Home
and
Away and Neighbours and all that,
it
seemed that Dan did too because when I came back
from
all of my exciting adventures in Aus
I
got a scoop of the most delicious goss -
that
Rose and Dan had got together,
while
I'd been sunning myself in much better weather.
It
transpired that Rose had refused his insistence
to
meet for coffee, but that boy had persistence,
and
he'd invited her on a trip to the Baltic,
'Milnosh
is coming!' the truth he pole-vaulted,
later
having to ask him to come,
when
it seemed that Dan's convincing had won,
and
Rose agreed to go,
since
Milnosh and Kirsty were going, you know.
Of
course that's why they're probably the only couple
in
the whole world who have a photo
of
them out together on their very first date
thanks
to the company provided by Dan's very best mate.
So
that, my dear friends,
isn't
the end,
but
where I leave off with this story,
because,
as they say, the rest is history...
So
here's to my inspirational little sister,
who's
found herself a wonderful mister,
I'm
so glad that I told you not to wait for a sign,
that
you weren't passive waiting for the stars to align,
but
you took that first baby step towards your destiny,
it's
out there, so go and get it, it's meant to be!
