Childish Song, No.2 – without refrain.
If you ever meet somebody,
Somebody you fall in love with,
When you meet that somebody,
Surely you must tell them;
Tell them that you really love them,
Love them and adore them only:
Or however will they ever know,
Know just how you feel toward them?
How will they know that it’s alright,
Alright that they feel this way too?
Ben A Harvey
May 2013.
© Ben A Harvey. All rights reserved
Real Men: A Lament.
Real men have no manners.
Real men have no grace.
Real men never say ‘please’ or ‘thank you.’
Such things simply have no place
In a real man’s world.
Real men do not sit by bedsides.
Real men do not stay to hold your hand.
Real men’s eyes never brim with tears.
Such things – such things – have no place
In a real man’s world.
Real men go on expeditions.
Real men return after you have died.
Real men place lilies on your grave.
‘To have and to hold’ has no place
In a real man’s world.
Real men will start a charity.
Real men will raise money in your name.
Real men will say it is what you’d have wanted;
But what you wanted had no place
In a real man’s world.
Ben A Harvey
May 2013.
© Ben A Harvey. All rights reserved.
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