So, you grew up,
leaving me Peter Panning for gold
amongst the grit of adulthood.
Your guitar gathers dignified dust,
while mine puffs and wheezes
yet another senile song,
an arthritic dog
treading painfully in step
with its selfish, thoughtless master.
I never envied you your brilliance
because it was shared, it was ours
but I've been toasting marshmallows on the embers
far too long.
And now your real life,
the one you've worked for, studied for,
sweated for
(and the one I've studiously ignored)
is to carry you over the sea
and away.
I have no doubt it is still your brilliance
that paves the trail,
But it's for others, now
and that is fine.
I am reconciled,
and full of hope for you and yours.
Let's see now:
G, B minor, C...
There's a song in here somewhere,
I know it.
Mar 17, 2015
Mar 17, 2015 at 4:58 AM UTC
So, you grew up,
leaving me Peter Panning for gold
amongst the grit of adulthood.
Your guitar gathers dignified dust,
while mine puffs and wheezes
yet another senile song,
an arthritic dog
treading painfully in step
with its selfish, thoughtless master.
I never envied you your brilliance
because it was shared, it was ours
but I've been toasting marshmallows on the embers
far too long.
And now your real life,
the one you've worked for, studied for,
sweated for
(and the one I've studiously ignored)
is to carry you over the sea
and away.
I have no doubt it is still your brilliance
that paves the trail,
But it's for others, now
and that is fine.
I am reconciled,
and full of hope for you and yours.
Let's see now:
G, B minor, C...
There's a song in here somewhere,
I know it.
Request permission to use this poem