Experience Teaches

I am tough enough I heard you say Just fronting up to duty every day Seeing things that make others cringe A cleansing ale is drunk sometimes in a binge And I went from year to year Whilst I held back all those tears And during the night I see them still The maimed and dead a butcher’s bill When you see me know this now I stood for you in my know-how And not complained just made it so But when alone the emotion shows There is no need to weep for me My life I’ve made is plain to see And when my final day has come Say only of me RIP your duty is done. © Paul Warren Poetry