How can that be my baby poem by pam ayres

Congestion on the motorways, free holidays for thugs, The damage to the ozone layer, refugees, drugs, These may defeat the brain of any politician bloke, But present it to my husband, he will solve it at a stroke. Donald Trump. On them we never call, Why bother with computers…when my husband knows it all. Down long-forgotten railway lines and over broken bridges Came the young men, From vanished stations with frilled eaves, past coal yards and sidings, Over points switched by signalmen unseen, They came from valleys green, From blackened cities mean, To battlefields obscene.

Drawn like single threads to forge a cable, From factories and shops, from farm and stable, Football teams and banks and streets entire, Through cuttings deep and scarred by summer fire, Through tunnels dark, embankments steep, to face the threat, To learn the ways of rifle and of bayonet. You mothers on windswept platforms, crippled by the gash of fear, Go home.

You aching sweetheart bent and crying for your young man, Go home. You have shared a last embrace. Hold it tenderly, remember it, safeguard and cherish it, For it must last a lifetime. Standing on a rugger field, more than six foot one. Steam rising from him, his legs are streaked with blood, and he wears a yellow mouthguard, in a face that's black with mud.

How can he look like that? I used to sit him on my knee and read him postman pat. Those little ears with cotton buds I kept in perfect shape But now they're big and purple and they're fastened back with tape. When did he reach that size? What happened to his wellies with the little froggy eyes? His shirt is on one shoulder but it's hanging off the other and the little baffled person at his feet is me: his mother. Join now to personalise. November Birth Club BabyCentre may earn a commission from shopping links.

Stole this from March 09! Made me a bit teary because its true!! Original poster's comments 1. Now i dont want my little boy to grow up lol. Connect to Spotify. A new version of Last. Do you know a YouTube video for this track? Add a video. Add lyrics on Musixmatch. Do you know any background info about this track?

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