David Lewis Paget Poems

His wife was due on the midnight plane
That was coming from Beijing,
He got to the airport early so
He wouldn't miss the thing,
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The three of us had been travelling
For weeks, and were getting tired,
We'd taken pictures of everything
And our visas had expired,
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What happens to love that's neglected,
What happens with absence of care,
When only the shrug of indifference
Is left for you both to share.
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They have me chained in this noisome cell
With its smells, its moans and shrieks,
No wonder they call it Bedlam for
I haven't slept in weeks,
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Wild horses we
Pricked at the wind,
Never to know, alas;
That all the lord of our fortunes bought
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Words flutter by us,
Caught in their moments,
Words sent to try us,
‘Loss' and ‘Elopements',
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I came home to an empty house
To find that you were out,
That you'd be home much later, then
I hadn't any doubt,
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I’ve no use
For your snow or your grass,
Your horse or your hash
Or your stone type trash;
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Five Children I
Once helped conceive,
I watched them grow
I watched them leave,
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The sun sat up on the mountain top
And started to sink from view,
A shadow, spread on the valley floor
Was creeping over you,
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