we've ignored eachother for a long time <br />and I'm strictly an indoor man <br />anytime to call would be the wrong time <br />I'll avoid you as long as I can <br /> <br />When I was a boy we were good friends <br />I made pies out of you when you were wet <br />And in childhood's remembered summer weather <br />We roughandtumbled together <br />We were very close <br /> <br />just you and me and the sun <br />the world a place for having fun <br />always so much to be done <br /> <br />But gradually I grew away from you <br />Of course you were still there <br />During my earliest sexcapades <br />When I roughandfumbled <br />Not very well after bedtime <br />But suddenly it was winter <br />And you seemed so cold and dirty <br />That I stayed indoors and acquired <br />A taste for girls and clean clothes <br /> <br />we found less and less to say <br />you were jealous so one day <br />I simply upped and moved away <br /> <br />I still called to see you on occasions <br />But we had little now in common <br />And my visits grew less frequent <br />Until finally <br />One coldbright April morning <br />A handful of you drummed <br />On my fathers waxworked coffin <br /> <br />at last it all made sense <br />there was no need for pretence <br />you said nothing in defence <br /> <br />And now recently <br />While travelling from town to town <br />Past where you live <br />I have become increasingly aware <br />Of you watching me out there. <br />Patient and unforgiving <br />Toying with the trees. <br /> <br />we've avoided eachother for a long time <br />and I'm strictly a city man <br />anytime to call would be the wrong time <br />I'll avoid you as long as I can<br /><br />Roger McGough<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/soil/
