GOOD OLD JOHN

 

Good old John

You were always there

Nothing too much trouble

Always on hand to advise

To give a helping hand

 

Good old John

Steady dependable John

Unselfish, good egg John

Smiling humble John

Ever reliable

 

Good old John

I see you now in hindsight

Waiting in the wings

Holding a watching brief

Biding your time

 

Good old John

Simple undermining John

Conniving deceitful John

Smiling conspiring John

My wife’s friend John

 

Good old John

There you were

Pouring poison in her ear

Drip, drip, drip

But she saw through you

Good old John

THEY WALKED IN SILENCE

 

They walked in silence

Two halves of a whole

Palm against palm

Soul against soul

TRUE COOL

 

They’re the “in crowd”

The cool ones

The clique

 

Wearing the right clothes

Saying the right things

Defining cool

 

The un-cool sit

On the outside looking in

Wishing to be “in”

 

They bully and barrack

And show off to the crowd

The shallow crew

 

Sneering at cleverness

Shaming the boffins

In front of their crowd

 

Soon they will know

They have no future

They’re the cool fools

 

Don’t be envious

Stay with your piers

Friendship rocks

 

Just stand fast

Stick with your friends

That’s true cool

TRUE LOVE ARRIVED

 

True love arrived

Like a bolt from the blue

In a chance encounter

At a place and point in time

Someway distant

From that which they should

Separately have occupied

But the fates conspired

A serendipitous event

To bring them, unwillingly,

To that blessed point

Of momentary symmetry

When they glimpsed

Their separate histories

And shared future

AFTER AN AFFAIR

 

After an affair

All too brief

Barely any more

Than an aperitif

She stole my heart

Like a common thief

To leave me

Alone in my grief

HOW VIVIDLY I RECALL

 

How vividly I recall

Seeing you standing there

Dressed in white silk

I still feel the despair

Watching the woman, I love

Stood for all to see

Making her vows

To a man who wasn’t me

SALT ‘N’ PEPPER HEADED LADY FAIR

 

All I can do is stand and stare

At the salt ‘n’ peppered lady fair

The woman with the greying hair

Oh beautiful lady standing there

With tresses of salt ‘n’ pepper hair

Please be the answer to my prayer

 

Our course changed

By great waves of doom

Driving us on

Against our rudders will

To end us on a shallow reef