21st CENTURY NURSERY RHYMES # 48

 

Hot cross buns! Hot cross buns!

One a penny two a penny - Hot cross buns

Isn’t that buy one get one free? Or are they two for ones?

Not one a penny two a penny - Hot cross buns

STUDENT PROTESTS # 3

 

I feel as a conservative voter

I must apologize to the young

Particularly those of the middle class

Whose university worries have really begun

As they now face an uncertain future

For when their student loans are spent

The cost of their degrees will make them

Ever so very slightly less affluent

THE DEATH OF DREAMS

He leaves her house

Saying goodnight at the door

And heads homeward

Like so many times before

 

She has another drink?

Or snorts another line?

No need for a cab

She thinks she’ll be fine

 

On his lips is the taste

Of his loves last kiss

As he peddles ever onward

Towards the abyss

 

She drives like a demon

Without any care

Racing over the bridge

Not seeing him there

 

There is only one winner

When the two come together

Only one outcome

A young man lost forever

 

In the laws eyes he died a boy

Three days short of being a man

But a very mature boy

A young man with a plan

 

His life had a purpose

Plans and dreams to be achieved

But his dreams died with him

And they too should be grieved

 

Too young, too young

To leave dreams unfulfilled

Too soon, too soon

For a young man to be killed

 

For Joel Semmens October 16th 1992 – October 13th 2010 

TAKING OFFENCE

 

People are so easily offended today

This is quite ironic really

As due to political correctness

We are censored so heavily

And with all the sanitising

There is so little opportunity

But those who do take offence

Fall into three distinct categories

 

Firstly, the genuinely offended

Those who feel the detriment, 

Whose opinion is seldom heard

Unless it’s politically expedient

 

Second, the white middle class heterosexuals

Who like to be offended on others behalf

And are particularly suspicious

At anything that gets a laugh

 

Thirdly, come the professionals

Those who get offended for a living

They frequent the morning TV sofas

And are relentlessly unforgiving

 

The professionals feel no offence

But find their roles financially fulfilling

They will take umbrage for anyone

Just to earn another shilling

 

Even worse however is anticipated offence

Those who want to act just in case

Some unspeakable offence may be caused

If things are unchanged or left in place

 

The original intention may well have been

That a better society was planned

But what they have managed to do instead

Is to make the world more bland

A PINCH OF SALT

 

Take life with a pinch of salt

So, the old adage goes

So, follow the advice

Take it from one who knows

Take life with a pinch of salt

Take it from a wise fella

Just follow it with a slice of lemon

And a good shot of tequila

ABIGAILS TALE - ONE DAY VERY SOON

 

In the comfort of the coffee shop

Nestled into a sofa

Sits Abigail, homesick and sad

As she reads a letter from home

 

She knows the sadness will pass

And sooner this time than the last

It strikes each time a letter arrives from home

With news from those she left behind

 

Her parents, loving and kind

Her sister annoyingly lovely

All her friends of long standing

And of course, him

 

She left her hometown

The only place she had ever lived

After her marriage failed

So, she is building a new life

 

Away from the people and places

Away from all the familiarity

That reminded her daily

Of her failure and her inadequacies

 

So, she lives in a new town

And is making new friends

Discovering new familiar places

And trying to forget past mistakes

 

She has joined a new church

Where her angel’s voice

Sings in praise to heaven

And she is finding peace within herself

 

One day very soon Abigail will sit

In the comfort of the coffee shop

Nestled into a sofa

And not be homesick and sad

 

One day very soon Abigail will read

A long letter from home

And smile at it contents

And not feel the old pain strike

 

One day very soon

Abigail will let herself be happy

One day very soon

Abigail will forgive herself

SEPARATE

 

Sleeping separate nights

Living separate days

We live separate lives

Let’s go our separate ways