Be it your boyfriend or husband, poems tug the heartstrings ... No force can break us, our love sings its song. I am the moon, he is my guiding star, Together we soar, forever afar.

The poem combines Lochhead’s memories of Hogmanay in the 1950s and a love poem written for her husband to suggest enduring love that lasts through the years. Liz Lochhead’s love might last ...