The Hypocondriac

Nobody listens & nobody sees

The afflictions that bring a man to his knees

He said as around the market he raced

And then loaded his car in the disabled space

Nobody cares, it's not cheap to be ill

He said it before, he's saying it still

As he sups up his beer and drags again hard

On his fag while he scratches a lottery card

I don't ask a lot, just what is my right

And my worries, they keep me awake in the night

He exclaimed and then belched and patted his belly

Before falling asleep in front of the telly

He murmured 'I think I may die in the night'

As chance would have it he was quite right

In spite, or because, of all he had said

When he woke up - he was dead

Elephant Predicament

I sat at peace contented

With the world at one

Dozing in the afternoon 

Soaking up the sun 

A shadow overshadowed me

Warmth and sunlight gone 

Suddenly it was as if

The sun no longer shone

I started up in panic

All at once awake 

But all I saw was pachyderm

All else became opaque 

I prodded at the pachyderm

It put up no fight

But merely turned itself around 

And poohed on me from height

Stunned beneath a pile of pooh

I shouted out 'not fair' 

The elephant stared at the sky

As though I wasn't there

I shouted louder at the brute

Until it noticed me

I hoped that it would move along

But all it did was pee

In the depths of my despair

I willed the elephant not there

But all my wishing was in vain

The pachyderm remained

In the end all I could do

Was resign myself to life in pooh

Sat beneath the tusker's bum

Never more to see the sun

I wept and slept and woke again

In expectation of more pain

But to my complete surprise

The sun was shining in the skies 

Elephants come and then they go

Nobody can tell them 'no' 

They are of no fixed abode 

Wait long enough - they hit the road 

So if you're sunk deep in pooh

And there's nothing you can do

When elephants trespass en masse

Remind yourself - this too will pass 

Re-turn-ing

In a far off ancient time

When the universe ran slow

I was yours and you were mine

And how were we to know

That soon the years would pass like hours

That soon the hours would flee

Like beams of light cast 'tween the showers

Like waves upon the sea

Breaking on a shingle beach

Upon a far forgotten shore

Each one foaming upon each

Continuous - forever more

Come watch with me the shadows turn

Night to day to night to day

And together we will yearn

That future eon when we may

As if in an ancient time

When the cosmos slowly span

Life and love as one entwine

As it was when we began