The Eyes of Silver Blue

Kayleigh…

By Silver Blue

…I’m still trying to write that love song, Kayleigh it’s more important to me now you’re gone…. maybe it will prove that we were right, or it’ll prove that I was wrong… (“Kayleigh,” Marillion)

Me and Kelly Ann Zechmeister, October 1988. (Kayleigh was my nickname for her, and she’s the only one allowed to call me Johnny.)

Yes, that was a Commodore 128. We’d met on QLink, the precursor to AOL.

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Silver Blue, who finds it hard to believe how quickly time passes…