Did you post the mail I gave you? Asked the one I must obey.
Sure I posted it when at the shop, getting dog food yesterday.
You bought the dog food Tuesday, it’s now Friday afternoon.
Came the dig from Mrs perfect who was perched in our back room.
It couldn’t be, sure I watched the match, last night on the TV.
The mid-week game, on Wednesday, I sat on this settee.
Last night was flaming Thursday came the rant from down the hall.
I sat there dumb, my head a swirl, just staring at the wall.
The cloakroom door, her footsteps, her mutters getting loud.
Appearing in the doorway with my coat held like a shroud.
Her face was stern her shaking head I knew this was not good.
I smiled at her and tried a joke, maybe I could change her mood.
But I knew the night was ruined and any fun, well that was banned.
Cause she held that ****** letter grasped tightly in her hand.

Glance at me and you may see weakness.
Look closely and you will see my strength.
Pass me quickly and you might think I’m aloof.
Stop and see I’m deep in thought.
Hear me speak softly and think I’m quiet.
Dance with me and find I’m wild.
Give me no time and then assume I’m cold.
Then sit with me a while and see my warm heart.
Judge me not with fleeting time.
Give me time and I will show you I am all.

I can’t say when it started for it crept up really slow
Waking at four thirty with the need to have to go
Walking to the bathroom in the middle of the night
Needing to relieve myself, a *** and not a *****.
I’d stand there waiting tiredly for the stream to start to flow
And when it did, I stood and cursed cause it came out so slow.
A trickle took forever, and then it didn’t want to stop
It carried on till it became a drip, a drip, a drop.
I gave a shake, and flushed the bowl, washed hands, retired to bed
I’d sleep, and then I’d wake again, my eyes bloodshot and red.
It was only thirty minutes since I last stood at the ***
But I just had to rise again and stand at that same spot.
Again I’d wait for what seemed hours before I’d start to ****
And wait until that dribble stopped, I can’t go on like this.
At night I’d do this ritual, in the day it filled my head
I’d think was this the dreaded C the curse that all men dread.
So with some trepidation I set off to see the Doc
My **** scrubbed clean and smelling fresh, cologne sprayed on me ****.
For I knew he'd need to see the place no one had ever been
But I wasn’t sure if my wee man needed to be seen.
Just bloods today he told me, no poking, that was good
But he’d have to probe next visit, and there’s no need to see my wood.
A week it passed I got the call to visit him again
My bloods were fine and that was good the poking could begin.
He told me his opinion was my prostate had grown with age
But he’d need to feel it for himself so he would now "engage!"
I loosened off my trousers, on his table I reclined
Thinking thoughts of football, to occupy my mind.
Upon my side I turned away and pulled up my two knees
I wished for Anaesthetic or a jab my **** to freeze.
But in truth I didn’t need it, now I wouldn’t say its fun
But it took only seconds before the test was done.
He said the check had just confirmed what my blood test had just said
I could now remove the thought of cancer from my head.
Those days and nights where worry scurried round my brain
Thinking was it my turn, it was driving me insane.
So guys just get a check-up, you owe it to yourself
To keep a check upon the state of your own prostate’s health.

Shots sound children die
Mothers grieve and fathers cry
I can hear hope sigh

The rain gave the matt green leaves a glossy look as if dipped in natures varnish. The green dazzling in my mind, even after so many years.
The sound of the rain unmistakable as it roared it’s delight in the early evening air.
Not another sound could be heard above the noise of rain drops as they ended their decent.
And then I saw you, you stood, soaked below the tree.
Steam rose from the road that passed between us like wisps of smoke from a dampened fire.
The road warmed by scorching summer sun that had been cast away by the sudden storm.
I did not know you, but in a heart beat I loved you.
I watched, enchanted, bewitched with your smile as you laughed at the storm.
I had to talk to you, be in your presence the torrent no deterrent.
Indeed I wished it would rain forever just to keep you there.
Then my world fell apart as you gestured to the sky, laughed then raced to the car that pulled up alongside you.
You were gone.
Many years have passed, I have moved far away but I had cause to return.
The tree still there, cast a spell that stopped my steps but ignited my mind.
I saw you again, laughing, still wet with that summer rain.
I was young once more, for a moment I fell in love again.
You, a stranger I never met, you stay warm in my memory.

Mediterranean flowers perfumed the air.
The morning sun rising showed little care,
for the dew on the grass that it ushered away.
Another bliss morning for another bliss day.
The sound of the sea gently kissing the shore.
I love where I came from, but I needed this more.
High wispy clouds said hello to the sun,
then melted away until there were none.
Gold coloured sand ran down to the sea,
and played with the ripples, tumbling free.
A lone little dog with no hesitation,
went bounding on in through the wave’s susurration.
I sat on the wall, I could sit here for life.
Away from the stresses devoid of all strife.
But soon I must leave and return to the grind.
With a tear in my eye I’ll leave all this behind.

Live each minute better than the minute before.
Love stronger today than you did yesterday.
Aim higher for tomorrow than where you reached today.
Forgive yourself for the mistakes you think only you make.
Be Kind.
But above all, love yourself deeply.