Something Useful
Mine
It's in the kitchen drawer...
But I don't know what it's for!
Think I bought it on a whim
And then hid the cost from Him.
I'm sure it's something useful,
Believe me I have tried
To peel and chop some onions,
till I cried and cried and cried!
It's sort of round and bendy
but it's not a garlic press.
When I tried to squeeze the lemons
It was leaving quite a mess.
It's not a nutmeg grinder or
a rotary steel grater.
Although, I might give it a go...
We're having cheese sauce, later.
Well, oops, that's solved the mystery,
No longer need to ponder,
Turns out, it wasn't mine at all,
But a part for Little Honda!
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Remembrance (TimeTicking)
It's in the kitchen drawer...
A gold watch, an old watch,
For service to the industry,
But it's so much more.
It represents a lifetime's toil...
His work, hard work,
Year on year of loyalty,
Like his father, before.
And yet it is a ladies watch...
Her watch, his wife's watch,
Mother to his dynasty,
Lovers, fifty years and more.
I'll take it, and wind it
And wear it, and bear it,
Remembering my parents,
With the loss still raw.
