ME AND MY SHADOW

  ME AND MY SHADOW              TIM WILLIAMS       NOV. 2015

WHEN I WAS BORN, A BABY BOY !!!
MY ADORING PARENTS PRIDE AND JOY,
BEFORE I MADE THE SMALLEST SOUND
I CAST A SHADOW ON THE GROUND

I NOTICED PRETTY QUICKLY THEN
THAT NO MATTER WHERE I BLOODY WENT,
THAT THE NEW FRIEND, THAT I HAD FOUND
WOULD ALSO BE, LURKING SOMEWHERE AROUND

NOW AT FIRST I DID'NT REALLY MIND
MY LITTLE FRIEND BEING BY MY SIDE,
WHEN I WENT TO MY VERY FIRST SCHOOL
HE CAST A SHADOW, QUITE TALL AND COOL

NOW LATER ON I MET A MAIDEN FAIR
WITH ( make gesture with hands of large breasts ) .... ARTHRITIS AND LONG BLACK HAIR,
I TOOK HER TO THE DUNES AT MERTHYR MAWR,
IN THE HOPE OF LOSING MY VIRGINITY ..... SOMEHOW !!

THINGS GOT STEAMY, I WAS ALMOST THERE
MY MANHOOD ALMOST INSIDE MAIDEN FAIR,
THEN THE SUN CAME AHHH .............. OUT FROM BEHIND A CLOUD
AND CAST MY FRIENDS SHADOW ON THE GROUND

I WATCHED MY ADOUR DISSIPATE AWAY
THE MAIDEN SAID " ARE YOU SURE YOUR NOT GAY ",
I SAID " CHRIST NO ", IT'S MY SHADOW LOOKING ON, THAT PUT ME OFF,
SHE SAID " YEAH ! , YEAH " AND THEN PISSED OFF

SO I WENT TRUDGING TO MY HOME
LIKE A DOG WHO'D LOST A BONE,
BECAUSE IN A WAY YOU SEE I HAD,
BUT MY SHADOW DID'NT FEEL IN THE LEAST WAY BAD

SO I THOUGHT I'D ASK MY GRAN YOU SEE
WHY IS THIS SHADOW FOLLOWING ME,
I SAID " NAN IT'S RUINING MY LIFE "
"AT THIS RATE I WILL NEVER FIND A WIFE "

DO YOU KNOW WHAT MY NANA SAID ?
JUST BEFORE SHE CLIMBED THE STAIRS TO BED,
" YOUR SHADOWS JUST WATCHING OVER YOU, FOR ME,
MAKING SURE YOU COME TO NO HARM YOU SEE "

NOW I'M DOWN TO MY LAST DAY'S,
MY SHADOW NEVER WENT AWAY, AND
ALL I REALLY WANT TO KNOW IS, WHERE DO ALL OUR SHADOWS GO, ?
WHEN OUR BODIES WALK THIS EARTH NO MORE