So far

I am so far now from the place I started
So many miles and many years have passed
Those I once knew are now my dear departed
and of my line I know I am the last.

But do not make for me a gift of sorrow
I will not weep nor beat upon my breast
For while I live, there's no grief I will borrow
I'll live in hope and be forever blessed

By the Power of Google

I can Google like a demon
I mean really really Google
I can come up with the meaning
for a gleamon or a droogle
and before you've phrased the question
or your fingers start their typing
I'll be looking at the answers
and the pages they are citing

I can filter all the answers
and pick out the ones that matter
by avoiding all the chancers
and the ones that are just chatter
I can recognise 'like' farmers
and expunge them from my short list

'til I'm left with just the entries that are what I wanted in the first place
and not all that other old nonsense that's on the Internet.

It's time somewhere

I'll have bacon and eggs, black pudding and spam
hash browns and mushrooms and waffles with jam
coffee and OJ, all fine breakfast fare
'cause I'm sure that it's seven o'clock somewhere

Get me coffee and doughnuts, yoghurt and fruit
even some crystallized ginger root
banana and chocolate cake that I'll share
'cause I'm sure it's eleven o'clock somewhere

A chicken and bacon club sandwich comes next
or burger and fries in a take-out context
burritos and tacos, I'm quite laissez faire
when it comes to it being twelve o'clock somewhere

I'll have afternoon tea with crumpets and honey
a fish finger sandwich with butter all runny
a chateaubriand with a salad nicoise
good German beer from my favourite bars
The time doesn't matter, I'm ready to swear
there's no doubt it's surely (add time here) somewhere

Talk of tea

My dear I'm glad you're here
I haven't seen you since
that last man went away
though you saw him as your prince
until that awful day
when hurt came from his hand.
  But now you're here with me
  and we will talk of tea
  and I will understand

My dear I'm glad you came
It's really been an age
and though you have bad hips
and pain you can't assuage
complaints won't pass your lips
I don't know how you stand
  But now you're here with me
  and we will talk of tea
  and I will understand

My dear I'm glad we met
I've had a hectic week
just talking all around
the words we cannot speak
'til finally I found
my sympathy crash land
  So now you're here with me
  and we will talk of tea
  I'm sure you'll understand.

Walk faster

I drove you to school on that first day
and watched you as you walked away
and every day as you walked away
you walked faster.