Why do you despair my friend
Has love not enveloped you?
For the most part
A rock hard heart is just a stone
That will erode slowly with time
Before you blame the world
And a beautiful mother
Pity is like running across a scorched desert my boy
A poor choice in life
That is why it is so hard for you to find
Just like love can leap tall buildings
Your heart can mend
Would you not think of your family?
Your children are about to bleed
Or is it really your wish
To have faith in growing old and miserable
As kinfolk move away
And family is lost forever

When the sun shines
On Mudgeeraba Hill
A shadow casts
And Sedley has taken his leave
So many kisses short of fulfilment
For Vanessa
Every reason a beautiful wife
Shall grieve

I love you
In death what dreams may come
Thou art my friend
I dote on thee some

Your retirement doth amaze me
But I ask no reason
Thou art with merit amongst us all
A friend in every season

I remember you then,
I remember you now,
You were a great kid,
And I remember how
Inquisitive I do recall,
Into everything fun,
God took you suddenly,
No moment in the sun.

Petals fall around my girl
My special girl, my Hayley Jade
And roses grow
In glowing velvet around my Hayley Jade
And the rose thorns are smoothed by the power
Of a beautiful smile
I dream of a million roses for this little girl
And every petal on each rose is a smile
Delivered by an angel my Hayley Jade

And in the twinkling of an eye there she was
A little dream, a package wrapped beautifully
My Hayley Jade
And be it my greatest wish that this little girl
With angels shall fly
And granddad’s love will surpass all expectations
Whenever god shines his light I shall forever call it
Hayley’s halo
It will gladden my heart that she would love her old granddad
And life could not be better
My Hayley Jade the sweetest of all babes
And a very special girl in my oft broken heart
O’er mountains I go for this youngling
For she bought something beautiful my way
From a town called Te Puke
And two wonderful parents I say

Without you my darling my road would have an end
But with you my road goes on forever
And I welcome your love with all my heart
As we journey together with great happiness and spirit
We have a right to this for together we gave it life
The future is not predictable but the unknowing is exciting
Our own selfish love for each other is wonderful
And to share our freely offered passion for each others needs
Has given us a vision of untold dreaming
And I love you so much because with you
There is nought else to do except express that love

Adieus my good friend,
I just never gave it a thought,
That some day you would die,
And I would be so distraught.
Everyday we talked and laughed,
About things that did not rate,
But we never discussed at all,
The feelings of losing a mate.
Adieus my good friend,
Adieus.

Officer of the law,
Thou art misused,
Happy retirement,
In technology fused.

Envious desire,
Faith in the byte,
Computer skill doth merit,
A far greater height.

Seven year itch,
And the force is done,
The pleasure of a challenge
Go for it son.

For years he’s been a butcher,
Travelling between the seasons,
To good old Oz and back again,
I guess he’s had his reasons.

Some say Diggers Rest,
Is a memory not so fond,
Where he shore sheep in Melbourne,
And failed to collect his bond.

He wandered down to Tassie,
A blanket and suitcase lost,
He swears one day he’ll get it back,
No matter what the cost.

And the Birdwatcher’s Bar,
Is much the worse for wear,
Since that fateful day in ninety four,
When he served a beer there.

And down Old Te Tumu road,
All residents still agree,
The flamin’ butcher from Maketu,
Was lucky he missed a tree.