The Pledge

I pushed things to far and to the edge,

It’s time for change and for this pledge.

I want this clear and understood,

I know this is for my own good.

I must listen to one that’s close to me,

And take on board all that she sees.

I never want to cause upset.

I count my blessings from the day we met.

I don’t want to look back with regrets,

or remember behavior I’d sooner forget.

I’ve been given my warning shot

I am lucky it’s a warning I got.

It’s a simple thing that needs to change,

A behavior when out, to rearrange.

Socialable drinking is now my friend,

And drinking to excess is at an end.

If I want to keep what I love the most

and keep her happy and keep her close

I need to pledge there’s an end to this.

A reoccurance is a dangerous risk.

I want to keep you with a smile,

Lead you towards a better life style.

You dererve the best of me,

In all I do and in all you see.

Never embarrassed and always proud.

For the right reasons, I’ll stand out in the crowd.

In all you’ve got going and what your going through,

This is the pledge I give to you.

I’ll pull in the reigns and slow myself down,

When being out and about and on the town.

Always I pledge that when you are around,

There be 100% sense and a major clamp down.

I’m pleased with the warning and happy for this,

Feel confident that this will not persist.

I will focus my attention on being better for you,

Show you how precious you are in my view.

I will never upset you again like I did,

It’s the last time I’ll ask you to forgive.

Now that’s at an end and we can move on,

We’ve a better foundation to build futures upon.

Change for the better and change for the best,

Sorry sincerely for the upset and the stress.

The Meeting of Couples – Barcelona 2008

As promised I sit to write out this poem.

Alone with my thoughts that are my thoughts alone,

About the meeting of a couple far from Down Under.

A more pleasant a meeting you couldn’t have with any other.

Separated by land, by seas and the passing of years.

Two lives built by memories and not just souvenirs.

It’s a pleasure to meet with a couple like this,

Who take all life on and make the most out of it.

Who share in all moments & in all places new,

Who have a youthful adventure in all that they do.

I must also admire you to stand with a smile in that cue,

Through all of those taunts and the slags that I threw.

If I only knew now, what I thought that I knew.

I’d realise that it is me that is searching few clews,

To what makes things last so fresh and so new.

Evident by this meeting I had with you two.

I should’ve used this time better and left no answers behind.

I’d query your happiness together and clear peace of mind.

How through it all, you stay as connected as seen,

And defend both positions like a seasoned pro team.

These are the things that are searched out by all.

Like your team in the World Cup. I dropped the ball.

So foolishly as presented, this opportunity I missed.

But all was not lost and still some accomplished.

From a square in Barcelona and a cue in Spain.

I know from my thoughts what I’ll kept and what remains.

If your feelings are true and your intentions sincere.

You’ll always have what matters most close and always near.

You’ll never be worried about the passing of years.

You’ve a lifelong friend & companion to share in all fears.

Time’s but a measure mapped out on a scale.

You have a lifetime together where many others have failed.

This is the wisdom that is your lives together alone.

If I look for answers I must go map out my own.

So to Robert & Trudi Granger, this is my poem to you.

Stay always as youthful & to yourselves always be true.

Barcelona

At last we found the right place to go.

You got to talk to those in the know.

I did my probing on the net.

I agree this area is the safe bet.

I wont be long before we go.

And it’s a place we both don’t know.

It will be our little tourist test.

I know I’ll be there with one of the best.

We’ll succeed to repeat elsewhere again.

Relive the joys we found in Spain.

Walk all the sites and street together.

Fingers crossed about the weather.

I’m glade we finally found the right place.

Getting this wrong would be a disgrace.

I can’t wait for all the tales we can tell.

Half way there but to pick the hotel.

Between us both we will get this right.

The rest is easy. Just book a flight.

4 days of you and me by your side.

Making our choices, our own tour guides.

The great thing about this, we have time on our side.

It’s nice to think that our next choice is worldwide.

That’s what you do when you have someone nice.

Never only once. You must always go twice.

Once you’re at two you must go for another.

If you don’t keep going places, why firstly bother.

It goes without saying I can hardly wait.

My first foreign trip of 2008.

I think me and you are built upon firsts.

It only gets better and never gets worse.

It’s all special, and new and nothings the same.

My friends couldn’t come close in their match-making games.

I find everyday I feel something new.

All I have to do is think about you.

It’s pure and exciting and never the same.

We will be even closer by the time we hit Spain.

I love being me with you without the persona.

You wont see any different when we’re in Barcelona.

The Night In - Dublin

I lie here pre-sleeping alone in my bed,

Consoled by the words that were just said.

Not that alone when we are apart.

I knew this was the case from the start.

Knowing is far removed from the truth.

Just can’t help missing you.

It’s in it all and what we get up to.

I got to used too the one of the two.

Dublin for you. That’s the cold facts.

You need to get to grips with that world of Tax.

Financial accounts and the books and the VAT.

I spent my fair time studying all that.

Life is running and even more funny than this,

Is the simple and basic things that you’d miss.

A sincere smile and goodnight kiss.

I love our chats when they take place,

But it can never match the face to face.

An hour, a day, it doesn’t matter how long.

Beside you I’m happiest and think I belong.

Though this is monthly and will soon be gone past.

Each week feels longer than the one in the past.

So if I rationalise these feelings of time feeling longer.

It stands to reason that my feelings are stronger.

So in the larger scheme of things this week is just short.

Life is dotted with times of this sort.

The love is in the fact of what is.

It’s so much better having someone to miss.

17th January, 2008

This is my day to remember. One that I will not forget.

A day unmatched by all others. A day we caught sight and first met.

Who could of seen such a meeting or picture us now being appart.

We seemed to just click and feel something new and a welcomed fresh start.

It’s something so clean and unplemished, so neat and so simple and clear.

Though its a long way to go yet. For me it’s already a good year.

The usual doesn’t even feature of the boasting and augmenting of facts.

Makes we think that we going the right way and will never derail off these tracks.

I always used to think and always wonder on the whens and the hows and the wheres.

If then I thought of the Front Door. I would never of pictured this there.

The place at this time doesn’t matter. It’s the person that matters to me.

It’s this person I value and cherish. This person I can’t wait to see.

Her smile is like sun in the morning. Her presence shines brighter even still.

For me it’s a blessing and kindness that together we have time to fill.

We don’t count the minutes or hours. What we have is beyond space and time.

It’s nothing that’s selfish or greedy and definitely not only mine.

Together we are a true friendship of shared wishes, and hopes and of dreams.

Together we plug on regardless. Together we are caught up in a dream.

In dreaming I could never imagine or picture this first meeting day.

Left with these feelings and emotions and unsure about what I’d trully like to say.

So picture perfection, pure white and complete sharing. Even then you’re not even close.

We found something that’s rare, beautiful and illusive and trully searched out by most.

My head is now clear and like a window for her where she sees all of me.

What a day she gave me to remember to allow me to feel and to be.

It’s the date that I care to remember. A time that stopped time for a while.

I don’t even dwell on the details like when she desided to give me the smile.

It’s now I look back and I’m thankfull for the whens, and the hows and the wheres.

But happier more in the meeting and the fact it was you I saw there.

For us it’s the date of a meeting, a sharing of two peoples’ minds.

A union that may have an equal but for us it’s just one of a kind.

If you read this and share in these feelings I’m glade I connected with you.

I reflect this in words of true feelings but also in all that I do.

Dated 17th January in this year of 2008.

It was lucky, unplanned but perhaps destined and personally I think it was fate.

So now we can look forward and wonder of times that have jet to be.

Future looks bright, full of moments with you simply there beside me.