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.
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