But I Like Helium Balloons

 

Helium balloon you look lovely

Red, yellow, blue, pink, in the sky

Released by excited/happy children

Who squeal with delight as you fly

 

What's this? We hear there is a council

Who want to ban us (stay deflated)

They say when we come down from high up

We pollute waterways, and are all hated

 

We give so much joy to the kiddies

OK we might make bit of mess when we land

But remove all this joy from our kiddies?

To us seems a bit underhand

 

(Don't cry kiddies, there's still hope.....)

 

The ban will apply only to council things

But if there's a birthday for Joe

You're free to gung ho with ballooning

As long as the council don't know

 

As yet it's unclear as to whether

Weddings will be included in ban

Oh why are they wanting to ground us?

When we give so much joy prior to land

 

Now here's my suggested solution

Start making compostable balloons

We'll have to stay clear of the rain clouds

Don't want our joy turning to doom

 

Continuing my suggested solutions

Synthetic colours (of course) cannot be used

We'd have to use animal or plant dyes

Carrot or beetroot infused?

 

As well as balloons causing pollution

We can't have them brightening the gloom

And think of the great money saving

The saving to be had by the groom

 

Don Matthews August 2019