A Gift That's Not That Dissimilar To Me Today Poem by Mark Heathcote

Unexpected gifts are the best.
The absolute best: a chocolate Labrador
Or airline tickets abroad to a holiday destination.
Or to be thrown a surprise birthday party.
Or a video montage of all the people you've ever loved.
Or a positive pregnancy test wrapped in blue ribbons.

Unexpected gifts are the best.
The absolute best is an engraved timepiece.
Engraved with the words, 'I love you every second.'
What makes you ultimately tick?
Something blue, something pink
Or were they the keys to a new black BMW car?

Unexpected gifts are the best.
And the absolute-best-by-far
Maybe it was something uniquely personalized.
That brought an unexpected tear to your eyes.
Maybe it was a space helmet TV.
Or one of those bright red Raleigh Chopper bikes.

Maybe it was the Christmas Amstrad stack system.
Playing back-to-back LPs, War of the Worlds
Maybe it was Tinky Winky or Teletubbies. Laa-Laa
Mine was simply a one-eyed brown teddy bear
With a stuffed sawdust head. I took each night to bed.
Given me by my grandmother, sadly long since dead.