Will you have one more drink with me
If
My last days here are known
Will you reminisce the days I made you feel good
Will you remember the fun days
Rather than the other ones
When life was unmatched to our dreams
There was little sun ahead
And
We struggled with ourselves
We struggled with each other
Our lives torn by haste and youth
In a hurry to grow up
We crashed we burned and yet we loved
Ferociously
We bore a child
A boy of good sense and manhood
A father accepting all challenges
Out of it all came something good
Something worth one more drink with me

What’s gone wrong with our Australia
Why are we locking our doors
Why do we need a bloody privacy policy
When
Once we shared everything
Even a cup of sugar
With anyone in our street
Why have goverments gone mad
Why have they made us so scared to open the front door
Big brother has killed society in Australia
And
Multiculturism has changed our face
Ruined our mood
Taken our love of all things foreign from interesting
to downright scary

Who do we blame
A piss weak government I say
Doogooders to scared to say to outsiders
This is what we want our Australia to be

We the people want to be in charge
We the people want to leave our doors open
And
We the people will decide who walks through those doors

Governments need to lock up the crooks
Build the jails
Turn back the boats
Save our taxes for Australia’s future

And get off the gravy train
Or
It’s the end of Oz as we knew it

I could never understand those days
With Mum and Dad
The terrifying thought of being an unwanted son
A kid not needed
A kid who knew nothing about loving

A hug was a mystery to me
A kiss was something only others did

Toys were what my friends got at Xmas
Gifts were what others got on birthdays

Not me

I got the jobs around the yard
Weeding
Cleaning Dad’s aviaries
Killing vermin such as mice
And
Digging gardens all weekend

A trapper’s life meant absence
A trapper’s wife meant hardship
A trapper’s child meant loneliness and trouble

A mother lost in burden
With no time for a wayward boy
Better suited to government care

The scars remain
Only years of watching others grow old
Allow you to forgive and hopefully

Be forgiven
For being that awful boy

Feel not compelled to attend
When they send me off
I won’t know anyway that you came
Or
You thought me not worthy of a farewell

You will have no shame no blame
From me
Dead men cannot speak

There is no hell heaven is on earth
And
God’s book has failed me
Just like it will fail you
Oft

But there was a heaven I enjoyed

If you were my friend or family
Then I was in heaven with each of you
In a mortal place

The best thing you can do is remember
The bastard I was
Or
A person you loved
The memory within you about me
Only leaves on your own demise

Therefore
I am with you forever
In love and hate

I bid thee farewell

I held your hand that day
My darling girl
That awful day when your eyes closed
I hugged you to my chest and prayed so hard
I gave you my best first aid training darling

I did not bring you back but I tried so hard
As did others

I worked with you through a waterfall of tears
Trying to control my sense of panic

I knew you were in trouble sweetheart
I knew we were being tested my very special girl
You tried so hard to come back to me

I could not overpower the angels
I know that

My life’s fear is
Did you hear me talking
Did you hear me say

I love you forever

Riches do not enter my mind
Happiness is a thing of will
Love is take what you can get
And
Spread the word

Fame it’s not on my radar
And
Innocence well it left me years ago
Friends are not queuing as you will see
Outside my door

Women are always welcome though
They offer a certain place
A peace
Where men can dream of being loved
Outside of reality

All these things are figments
They are normal
If you wish

But nothing nothing ever

Can purvey my last wish

As the need I have someday
To catch a bloody fish

Thou has’t stirred my broken heart
I am beholden to thine smile
My beauty
I am borne of love
For I saw sweet beauty in your face
Like
A beautiful garden as you be
With perfect edges
And sweet flowers
I could love thee
Forever

With not a sun
Ne’er doth my vision fadeth
Slight
For imagination will triumph
In my oft dreams of thee
And doth though suffer
Trembling as darkness might
Cause of thee
On a summers day
Wasted,
Perchance think of me

Give not a heavy breath lest ye’ hear
Heralded scuttlebutt you draw to thou
And panic not amid the fire of angst
Toward your thoughts of such a row

And love is so easy when you have it
So hard when away
And my mind is betwixt
Would thous’t be so unsure?
Oh! Maiden fair! My loved one
Who cryeth back then ask thee
If not it be me then whom struck the tears
My love on a fateful day
And the winds blew in cold words
Have I not had my say and hurt?
Why has love fractured so?
And god sent me a whisper by light
Upon your golden hair
And faith in me was done