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HALF A CENTURY ALONE

  by Nobo13

  Copyright 2011 Nobo13

  *****

  Smashwaords Edition License Notes

  Half a Century Alone

  by Nobo13

  For Lino*

  *subject to change on current relationship to my sister, future affairs regarding family and fortune, disability, sister’s opinion of the named. Terms and conditions apply. Find happiness and stay together.

  Hello!

  Hello!

  It’s good to see you!

  Will you be my friend?

  If you will

  I can tell you some stories

  Fifty stories to last you your lifetime

  Some will inspire

  Some will make you laugh

  Some you won’t like

  But hopefully you’ll understand

  They all say

  Hello there my friend

  Childhood yesterday

  When work was less than play

  And we talked and laughed all day

  It seemed that it would stay this way

  But it didn’t, and it faded away

  Now it’s work and no play

  And we speak every other day

  As a child may

  We wished it was still yesterday

  Asleep at the wheel

  Don’t sleep

  I’ve got to drive

  Don’t sleep

  I’ve got to stay awake

  Don’t sleep

  Eyelids get heavy

  Don’t sleep

  Hands lose grip of the wheel

  Don’t sleep

  Eyes blur

  Hands fall

  Wake up!

  Road ends

  Car veers off

  Car hits a wall

  In a coma

  You won’t

  Wake up

  Love

  Bitter the fruit which

  Sprouts from love

  This feeling from within

  I love you without reason

  Which is why I can’t go on

  I want to stop knowing you

  Yet I want to be close to you

  The Gods of pity spit on me

  How I hate to love you

  Running of the bulls

  In Spain, on a day of celebration

  The cattle are gathered in the market

  In the square, lovers meet together

  He asks for her hand in marriage

  She says yes

  He’s happy

  He goes off to run alongside the bulls

  Under feet they find him

  His heart no longer beating

  Never loved Christmas

  I never loved Christmas

  Never believed in Santa

  Who believes in flying reindeers?

  And a fat man who goes down chimneys?

  I would if I could

  But I’ve been raised on dreidels

  David’s star hangs on our window

  Bright as any beacon, shining so brightly

  Telling Santa to keep away

  Two dogs

  Two dogs lived door to door

  ‘Love thy Neighbour’ says the Bible

  However these dogs fought day and night

  They fought over every possible thing

  One day one of them died

  The other won the war

  Crying, he said to his dying comrade

  “What were we fighting about my friend?”

  Forgotten

  Where are the keys?

  Here they are

  Damn, now I forgot

  Which car park I parked in!

  Oh yeah, the west one!

  But damn, where’s the ticket?

  Crap, oh! It’s in my wallet

  But shit I left my son somewhere!

  Wait! He’s with the wife!

  So where are the keys?

  The moment of truth

  It’s my Birthday!

  I’m grown up!

  I wonder what people got me?

  Maybe a games console?

  Or even a puppy?

  I wonder what Mum and Dad got me?

  I run into the room

  Mum and Dad are there

  They’ve got a surprise!

  “Dear, we’ve got news…

  I’m afraid you’re adopted”

  The boy with no eyes

  There lived a boy with no eyes

  He could not see

  His friend had said

  “Tell you what, I’ll give you my eyes when I die”

  So the boy with no eyes

  Waited and waited for his death

  But alas!

  The bear that attacked his friend

  Left nothing to spare…

  Red Riding hood

  In the darken forest

  A young girl hides

  Under a red riding hood

  Here, a guardian protects her

  A big black wolf

  Who loves her dearly

  But one day, he is hunted down

  She cries over him

  Forever chained by misery

  That he tried so desperately

  To free her from

  Though…

  Though I sit so close to you

  I never felt your pain

  Though I hold your hand

  I never realised your fears

  Though we live in the same world

  I never realised how alone you felt

  So I’ll open up for you

  Because my heart has room for it all

  Shooting star

  There was a boy who fell in love

  With a shooting star

  But soon she would leave

  Never to return in his lifetime

  Sadden by this, he cried sorrowfully

  So he made a wish using her

  To give her his life’s share

  Of love to last her in cold space

  Umbrella

  The two of them

  Were surely destined to meet

  For see, how happy they are

  And how they smile so blissfully

  I knew that they loved each other

  Because they shine so brightly

  They were truly a perfect couple

  For how couldn’t it be?

  They had both forgotten their umbrellas

  How the heart works

  If I were to fall in love with another

  Would our love end?

  If you were to fall in love with another

  Would our love end?

  There isn’t an end or a start

  A beginning or end

  Because our love stays forever inside us

  That’s just how the heart works

  Little girl lost

  Trying to find her way home

  But she never lost her way

  Crying she asks herself

  “Can I even smile?”

  Hoping no more tears would fall

  As she made her way home

  Only you can make yourself happy

  In this lost world of yours

  When will she make it home?

  The boy who flew

  That boy could fly

  But no one cared

  He visited Jupiter

  In his tiny head

  Everyone laughed at him

  Laughing away

  That boy could fly

  But no one knew

  And he grew up

  To a fine man

  One that could fly

  Though he used a plane

  He never stopped flying

  Rain

  Standing in the rain

  Makes me feel revived and ne
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  For someone like me

  The rain is my favourite weather

  Every drop of rain

  Is a miracle in my eyes

  Who cares about the sunny days

  When I’m so happy in the rain

  Watching it fall

  Brings no better joy

  Lollipop

  Crying, the boy wails

  Until a girl hands him her lollipop

  Silence befalls him

  As he smiles yet again

  Hand in hand they walk

  Lollipop-coloured tongues

  When either is sad

  The other hands them a lollipop

  The lollipops are gone now

  But something more important stays

  Deep within their hearts

  Cat in the box

  In physics there is a theory

  That a cat in a box is both alive and dead

  Don’t take a peek though!

  Because you don’t know which it is!

  Inside, the cat travels

  To parallel worlds

  To the future and past

  Witnesses the birth of the cosmos

  Inside this box

  Strangers in a lift

  Stepping into the lift

  I’m ambushed by cupid’s arrow

  Who knew that angels

  Used lifts to return to heaven!

  Words unspoken

  As we climbed to the sky

  Innocent love beats quietly

  As she leaves

  Without knowing anything about me

  How silly of my heart

  To have been stolen so easily

  Stubborn stains

  A mark left unchecked

  That lay upon my shirt

  Forever reminds me of you

  People try to leave their marks

  So to live forever

  But your stubborn stains differ

  I left them there to remind me

  To teach me

  Because you’ve always held my hand

  With just a simple stain

  Consider me

  Consider me dead

  If you were to leave me

  Consider me sick

  If you were to betray me

  Consider me broken

  Should you stop trusting me

  Don’t even consider me

  Should I not hold a place in your heart

  But consider me everything

  Should you love me too

  Consider me

  Blue-eyed Luca who travelled faster than light

  For those who have warped

  The use of telescopes is banned

  Why?

  If they used one to look back

  They would