They still call it Leo’s Room,
even though Leo hasn’t lived there
for thirty years. What once
was a baby’s bedroom is
now a study, yet still they call it
Leo’s Room. I know this because
my mum saw them in Sainsbury’s
a few weeks ago, and they got
chatting about old times. How things
have moved on. How the lawn
got paved over in the 90’s
and how Leo now lives half way
across the world. But I guess
no one ever truly leaves the land
that births them: I can still hear
those distant layers of laughter
echoing through the decades
behind these very walls.
