A love in verse

Blessings

2001-02-04
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When you ail you reassess

Your life with cold criteria

You feel you’re old and life’s a mess

And happiness is but hysteria


But when you pile your blessings high

Well, fit or not, you’re truly glad

A girl whom goldmines wouldn’t buy

And darling daughters – life’s not bad!


My girl goes wandering in Primark

To purchase for me tracksuit bottoms

To wear on holiday – what a lark

If pearls and gold are good, I’ve got ‘em


So my Allie, Cassie, Anna

Girls I raise my cup to you

Were I as famous as Ken Branagh

Without you I’d be always blue 

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Hope +

Even the dull eternal afternoon 

Lit dustily by sun on the Eastern side

Of dear old Mafeking gleams...

Absence

The leaves hang low now with the weight of summer,

Swallow you up along the sun-flecked path

Only your legs I see...