Feeling the Cold

FEELING THE COLD Starting to feel the cold After all these years Always had warm hands Wife called me hot water bottle Her personal nuclear reactor She has cold feet? cold hands? No problem - just plaster them onto my bare flesh And in a minute she’s warm Have always slept with no pyjama jacket - just too warm - Window open, she’s freezing, I’m feeling cosy But after all these years I’m starting to see her point of view : It is cold sleeping with the window open. Coming home, minus-twenty and a breeze Used to be “refreshing” Now it hurts my sinuses. Eyes water now in response to Snow shot in by the wind Don’t make snowballs to throw at her With bare hands any more. God help me, it’ll be long-johns and Woolly cardigans next.