It’s all there in this room everything
Almost all we have
The kids sleep in their beds happy
Clueless as to what I worry about
Thank God.
Look at my lad fast growing and so full
Of the hope children have
What can I tell him?
Things that aren’t relevant to them now?
Some things never change
Did I listen to my Dad as a kid
Don’t make me laugh
I love the auld feller
But we’re not much like each other
Well we both have a laugh and a pint
Maybe it’s why we get on
And then there’s my mother
She erupts like a volcano at times
Though the wife says I do as well
I can’t see I’m quite the same
But people laugh when I say that
Next to me is the wife and I say
Thank God
Where I’d be without her I don’t know
And the little one she’s watching me
Through cot bars and I’ll hear a giggle
If I so much as look before she launches
Over the top aimed at my belly
And then we’ll both be in trouble!
Really I want her to stay in bed warm
This is so damned cold the nets are stuck
Frozen there like they’ll snap if I touch
This spot by the window is freezing
But it’s my place to take keep them warm
Don’t tell them it hurts to breathe when I wake
A cigarette is what the doctor said
Would help me to breathe except now
They say I have to stop
Smoking or breathing?
Might be both if I keep feeling this bad
And I look around the room we need to escape
Four bodies in here is too much
It eases me to see our little family
We may not have a lot you see?
But we have each other and enough
We make sure of that ,only just
Thank God.
Ailsa
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