To Robbie x
The day when you don’t kiss me I shall starve,
and if you should dismiss me I should starve.
If I wake one frozen dawn
to chilly winds and find you gone
I’ll lose the will to carry on.
I’ll curl up in my lonely bed and starve.
And if you didn’t care for me I’d starve.
And if you were not there for me I’d starve.
With you not doing what I don’t ask:
putting coffee in my flask
and scores of other loving tasks
to set me on my way, then I should starve.
And if you never smiled at me I’d starve.
And if you’d not walk miles with me I’d starve.
If we didn’t take our leisure
in the hills and share our pleasure
watching nature's finest treasures
dance before our eyes, then I would starve.
And if you wouldn’t play with me I’d starve.
And if you turned away from me I’d starve.
And if you didn’t arrange fresh flowers,
clean the house for hours and hours,
bake me cakes using superpowers
then do the washing up, I’d surely starve.
I’d surely starve,
I’d surely starve.
If you didn’t feed me with your love.
If you didn’t feed me with your love.
Tim Ellis
Sun 21st May 2023 19:49
Thanks Keith & Uilleam. Indeed, I am fortunate too!