Paul Warren Poems

Looking and Searching
Hoping and Dreaming

That love will be seen
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It was a fine South Australian day in the April sun
The police motorcyclist's morning run had just begun
He was always a careful rider but this day was different
From the other direction at a speed that was significant
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My father bought a 1954 FJ Holden sedan
It was light green and had leather seats in its plan
I suppose to us it didn't matter and our family was made
As we went everywhere in that car and in the back seat we played
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In the seventies I drove the Eyre Highway
The Southern Ocean in the Great Australian Bight way
It was sealed road by then and really straight to gain
Miles of road crossing the treeless Nullabor Plain
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'Why did you stay, '
He said, 'When all the rest had run away! '
'What was your final call'
'When you had given your all'
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Tropical rain pouring down
Giving us that pitter pat sound
Still warm and humid weather
God has put for us together
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Do you see me standing there
Looking like I do care
But it's a mask you see
Of what I want to be
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It's the little things you do
That make me love you
And when the day is though
They make me smile too
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It was an afternoon ride with their soccer team
When the rain came down in a Monsoon stream
So the team and it's coach took shelter in a cave found there
As the cave system flooded in a life altering scare
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I found a place
Where I want to stay
Not to ponder upon yesterday
Or think about tomorrow
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