I had to let it go

 Yes you've got to let it go

With the birds

And the rain

And the wind that doesn't blow

I just had to let it go

All those feelings of sorrow

They hinder, impede

Not what you need

You know

I had to let them go

And I fell to my knees

In the deep grass seed

I cry and I bleed in the snow

Well it's not what I need

And funnel web's greed

I just had to let it go

Oh the clocks went back

I had an attack

Of time don't you know

Well too much of it kills

And not enough can stand still

While under your feet the grass grows

Still I just had to let it go

in a perfect world

 In a perfect world

There'd be no faces behind the glass

There'd be no separation

And all would be free to pass

In a perfect world teeth would stay in the mouth

The birds would not fly south

There'd be time enough to listen

And a right time to die

Oh how the leaves would glisten

After the rain clouds cry

In a perfect world

In a perfect world

We'd be young and strong

And each of us run the marathon

And no stumbling blocks

Or hidden traps

Could make us fall between the gaps

In a perfect world

For you and I

In a perfect world the Jade vase

Would sing outloudly of the hands that made

The Empire that was once waylaid

But now climbs up from the ashen grave

In a perfect world the dragons will fly 

Like red kites across the sky

And we will march under one banner

And all the larch will make for good lumber

And I can be in my manner

And no human being will be merely a number

In a perfect world

For you and I

Love and marriage

 The moon is like a penny

Shining in the 

Dark pocket of the sky

Half of what you want

Like a cradled baby

Hanging

The lawn is like your mother frozen in the dew

Half of

What you 

want

Knowing, always knowing

What the

world is coming to

The dog, I had to mention

Because dogs are like our angels

Or like our cousins

They always turn up, and you must expect them

At inconvenient moments

And a marriage gone wrong

Is like a dog that keeps howling

Because you know

That she/he needs feeding

Love or attention

But you can't quite bring yourself

To tear yourself

Away

From what you are doing

To respond

And so it keeps whinning

Until finally

It runs away in the night

and never comes home

Trundle rhyme

 He is the red island recruit

Of stupid sums occurring

Down the parklands ever burring

From the thistle to the fruit

He is common as a tractor

Outside of a reactor

On the farmland of xfactor

Who grows the unknown brute

And out he comes in fields

Along the hedgeline in search of a meal

In the plethora of woodland

Birds of long pursuit

But what covid flame

Has burned his covid name

Into ponies rump and side

By the river where he cried?

I can only guess at what

Was not spoken but was forgot

In the hours of the chimes

Before the ponies joined the rhyme

And all fairground castles

Are turning, turning pastles

About the necks of doves

Who harmless fly above

love on the rocks

 Well if I had given you more

Would you have walked out the door

Or if I had given you less

Would you have stayed it is anyone's guess

As it was I did enough

Life got hard, then it got tough

But I saw you through the bad days

Like a bright light illumines dark haze

And I sing for everyone sung

When days were long and work never got done

And I sing at the top of my lung

For the yoke was held though we both were free

For the sea swelled and my heart it might burst

For all the love in the world

Lovin' you is the worst

And my voice yelled, well am I not cursed

For lovin' you last means lovin' you first

In Tenby

 I'm in Tenby, I'm in Wales

I'm in the place where reality, breaks down and it

Fails

I'm in a hotel, I'm in an arcade

Can you hear me! I've made a park raid

They're smuggling bottles of Jack Daniels

Across the bridge and Bristol channel

Can you hear me we're in a party

And the only way out of here is art see

I walk the carpet along the corridor

It is dark, and it is tomorrow or

It could be today, but it is 2b

Or not to be, one day more

In Tenby

Life buoy

 They will fleece you in the desert, and fleece you out to sea

They will grease you like a pheasant

Preserved in modernity

They will take without asking

Put you under their control,

But most of all,

Young man, young man

The will take the life from thee

There will be no bones picked or flung

No stone too big

For to be hung

As a mill stone about your neck

Oh, peck, peck you chickens

Peck, until the blood spots fleck

Crow, crow in the morning

Until the sun comes dawning

And you know the day is come

Freedom rises like a star

Look up, look up

You know you are

Lucky to have this

World, this land

This natural sea

Beautiful sand

Come rejoice in the gift of life

And live for 

once so many did sacrifice

Thier own for you to live

In the freedom you have

Live the life you were given

In this earthly paradise