Lifetime Of Death
by Steve Sant
A Lifetime Of Death
The broken feeling you learn it young
You must for it’s certainty true
No hysterical fits just stiff upper lips
We are British and that’s what we do
So when I was but five and my grandfather died
And old aunts wept silent tears
I acted much older me being a brave soldier
My conduct addressed not my fears
My mother explained how it all got arranged
You had to be good and be kind
And long as you are a virtuous star
You shall leave the old devil behind
What is good though I wonder still on it I ponder
Some horrible people do pray
At this my fathers wake I make the mistake
Of thinking there’s nothing to say
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The End
And that’s the End of the Poem
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