"Wake me up before you go go"

 The title of this ode, is a song by WHAM from the '80's.

    

WAKE ME UP BEFORE YOU GO GO

 

I heard that song this morning 

On local radio

Evoking strong memory

Of really long ago.

Was traveling from homeland

That's Belfast, (north, six miles)

To London's Heathrow airport,

The song brought back some smiles.

I sailed to Stranraer's harbour

From our port, town of Larne

Then o'ernight train going southbound

Arriving there earl' morn.

To catch my next connection

Vancouver bound was I,

The train ride, it was cheaper

Than 'nother plane to fly

Whene'er the train I boarded

No seats avail'ble were

Some military men were on them,

Stretched out, without a care.

I couldn't hear them snoring

Or see the dreams they had

But felt their tired demeanour

To waken, would've been bad.

Recall me having thought tough,

How 'xhausted those men were,

And how I'd feel if woken,

To do so, wouldn't dare.

The lines of song to my mind

Came flooding back to me

As coming from the soldiers

So loved ones, they would see.

So I just hunkered down, me,

Near train floor,  luggage close,

To let exhausted soldiers

Some rest there, - have a dose.

        FELINE HEAVEN

When children own an animal,

A family pet, to care, 

Something that they, maturity can

Display, through 'motions bare.

It can be educational

Proving life's brevity,

For should we live to adulthood,

Of THIS, we ALL, will see.

I'd heard for years that canine friends

To "doggie heaven", go

Though felines, who "have nine lives"

They do NOT go 'below'

Instead, they, to a special place,

When quenched all their 'nine lives'

Their equivalent to canine's rest?

Why, it's called  "Purradise"

        The Rule of Time

One hour forward, one hour back,

Oh what a waste of time,

G.M., B.S. and back again,

It's quite the pantomime.

An hour less at work, for some,
And then, an hour more,
The time it takes to change each clock
Is really quite a chore.

Up north they say it gets too dark
As weans go off to school,
So back one hour the clocks do go
Like a regimental rule.

But one solution is at hand
That I suggest we do,
Just change the clock by one half hour
And keep that all year through.