Linda Milgate Poet Rhyme

Poem To My Friend

I think your package was delivered today
left by a stranger from a cold lonely
truck, left on a broody day when you need tea
we must look at it as our contribution
to life that seems crazy— a kind of ablution 
though we stay in our walker and wheelchair
as we listen and watch a world that we hear and we share
and the world seems to grow more gloomy and sad
we can only do so much from home and on a keypad
I once was out and about knocked on doors
went to meetings, signed petitions galore
God now I feel like sitting in my house what a crone
just tv, doctor appts, a phone, and so alone 
sending a reminder that life was a comical ad tragic and funny
something to send to a friend something chummy
something to moan and groan about and accept it as life
the craziness and cruelty the kindness and the strife 
something with rhymes that is funny for a friend
so the book I read and thought about -- to you I send

Hope you enjoy trumpty dumpty

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