My cameras have served me well

travelled far and wide

for many years,

been witness to

so many occasions

like when I met

Yuri Gagarin.

Those cameras were captured

how they fell in love

with the girl I married

all those years ago.

They were there to watch

as Churchills coffin passed by

that Saturday morning

in 1965.

Those cameras delighted

at meeting Sonny and Cher

at The Mount Royal Hotel.

How they marvelled

in north west London

when in July of '69

in the early hours of the morning

man was on the Moon walking.

They observed my daughter being born

watched me hold her

in my arms.

Meandered around Europe

were excited by Venice

oh how those cameras

have in those years travelled.

Sadly they were obscured

with tears that fell

watching those that passed in death

after so many years.

Yet they have stood the test of time

nowdays need spectacles

but they are fine,

my eyes

my cameras

still serve me well

after all these years.