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into the living room as he follows me. I turn to look at him and can see he is a little dismayed at the state of the room.
    ‘Having a party then?’ he tries a cheery smile at me.
‘No,’ I say rather smugly. ‘More like a wake.’
I look at dad’s face now and realise I’m being very selfish.
    ‘Oh, I’m sorry dad. I don’t mean to be rude. I know you mean well and I know you and mum loved Harvey too, it’s just the guilt...’
    ‘Come on now love, you had no way of knowing Harvey had a brain tumour. You did what you could for him.’
    ‘Yes I suppose, but he was so young, I never thought he would die. Well...’ I say, ‘so much for cats having nine lives.’

LIFE AND SOME
HUMOR

A S HADE O F F OOL
    I sat to long in the sun today
Now I'll pay the price
Just so I could look nice
Well I'm looking really sweet
A shade of raspberry red
Now has me tied onto my bed
With my head a pounding
While tummy turns
Oh god how I hate these burns
I plaster on the after sun
But it's sure not fun
In the hope it will keep me cool
But oh boy do I feel such a fool
From now on I'll make it a rule
Never again to want to look so cool
    You just end up looking like a raspberry fool

A T IME T O S AY G OODBYE
    Hello
Can I ask you
When is the right time to say goodbye
When the earth has shattered
and the walls are closing in around you
When silence is deaf and the echo
returns all the harsh words you say
Or is it when life is lived in a bottle
you can't tell which way is up
When you find the nest is empty
and you know longer understand your life here
Or is it one morning when leaving the house
you say goodbye I love you
You stop and think do I do I really love you
When your last breath is upon you and
you look into the eyes of one you have loved forever
No there is never a good time to say goodbye
When it is so much easier to say
Hello

T HE C HASE
    The silence of the night has gone, one so peaceful.
Dawn has broke, the chorus of bird song as I now awake, is blissful to my ears.
So the danger has passed the nightmare no more,
but yet so vivid in my mind.
And now I’m left to wonder, why it is my mind must tell a story in this way.
The way that scares me so, I have trashed about in my bed,
Twisting the cotton sheets to knots, Pil ow’s are thrown to the floor.
The sweet smell of perspiration on my damp body, tells
Once again of the chase I have just recently endured.
    Not for the first time I realise, I wonder whom it could be that scares’ me so.
    It is like someone has just flicked a switch.
And I know that it is I, who is doing the chasing.
Looking desperately for something I can’t find.
    I think to myself now, but whatever could it be, I swear to have everything I want.
But somewhere deep within me, something stirs.
And I know what it is I am chasing.
But I also know it is the one thing I will never find, for now at least.
So I turn over, pull the covers around me, close my eyes again
and drift into a new slumber.

O NE D OOR I NSTEAD OF TWO
    The phone call came today
I just didn't know what to say
The hope I had for you
But there was nothing I could do
    One door instead of two
    Meant we could not have you
The things I planned to do
The places we could bring you
The planned trip to the zoo
    One door instead of two
    The songs I'd sing for you
Sweet music we'd make us two
But the phone call said today
There wasn't any way you could stay
    One door instead of two
    My heart is lost to you
But the rules say it won't do
We tried and failed it's true
Because of one door instead of two
    My heart is aching there was anticipation now
there is only deflation

S TAND S TILL
    Why is it they move only in one direction
Always following after each
other playing catch up
And yet they never sit together very long
And all the while things are changing
The light from the dark and back again
The recording of events
Aways relating to their movement
They never stop you see
Sometimes we so wish they would
We wish it with all our might
But it’s no use