Another Day's Sky

I wish you wouldn't leave so soon

Your light perishes the gloom

The warmth that you provide

Makes my soul fit to glide

You are my precious little star

Touching the earth from afar

Now you disappear behind those clouds

And the cold bite of dusk is aroused

Fear not, for you will be back in the morning

Rising as the fields are thawing

Your gentle embers caressing me

Felt by every bird and every bee

It is dawn

I am waiting patiently on the lawn

The birds gather in their flocks

While girls play in their frocks

It is so wonderful for you to join us

My one and only furnace

But my heart is still burning with sorrow

Hurt from a retching quarrel

My crippling pain soon dispels

As you cast the most majestic of spells

Your rays drying the tears I cry

As you light up another day's sky

Dan's Kebab House

I've been standing by this fruit machine for some time

Dressed as sharp as a lime

As I patiently tap my fingers

The smell of onion lingers

Waiting inside a kebab shop

Spilling the heart you thought you'd rob

Stuck here on a Friday night

When I could have stayed at home to watch the fight

This wouldn't be the first time you've stood me up

Squashed like a plastic cup

Clinging on to every thread of hope

You always wondered how I'd cope

Calling me up at all hours

Well you drunk the wine and crushed the flowers

'Lets just stay as friends' you said

Oh, so that's why you slept in another man's bed?

A victim of time and circumstance

But never mind the facts

As foolish as it sounds

I forgive you for as long as the earth is round

Chest freezer

I even helped your dad out just to please ya

Now I'm left with a measly dime

But you are a mountain I'm willing to climb

I place my last coin into the machine

Strangled by a hopeless regime

One last gamble

My heart twisting through the mangle

Suddenly a text appears

I am caught unawares

'Waiting outside Dan's kebab house' it reads

I have fallen to my knees

I couldn't bolt outside quick enough

You always were a scruff

Standing there with your hoodie zipped up 

That's my Rob!

I gain a gentle whiff of your aftershave

This is no goodbye-wave

We don't utter a single word

My heart is already cured