Tidying up before you go OBE
(Over Bloody Eighty)
Tripping through your roots
Back home on family soil
Touching base with sisters and bro
Measure your survival in memories
England Scotland Ireland Wales
Your Four Nations tour
With your loved one by your side
O lucky man,
To have a second chance and get it right
Lucky man to be loved to bits
This time around
Then the bloody clots,
Fifth columnists in your veins
Ironic vindication of your brain
(Diagnosis must be in your cells by now
After forty years of daily waiting rooms)
How frustrating it must be
To know your body’s not right
But no specifics found
You’re a brave kind gentle man
I love you Dad
Come for a barbie at my place soon
You slack old bugger.
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