for Dave Collaton

20-10-11

On the battlefield
Scanning the periphery
Laughing at night
just before sleep

A team is a team
indivisible
all the same

Just one look
and trust is steeled
we only summit once
and all will be revealed

When your mother passed
I was lost at sea
Hard to see at the time
It would happen to me

But I saw the grasping
With my own eyes
At that point
I forgot all the lies

All the trances
All the pain
All the meals
All the rain

To his dying day
True to his thing
You could shed a tear
But a sting’s still a sting

The bees in the hive
Newman and Redford on screen
I was there on the set
Played every scene

That time this happened
The stories they got wrong
The rabbits pulled out of a hat
The lawn chair beds at dawn

Always looking for a sign

Pointing the way towards home
That last round was mighty kind
How’d you like my tone?

the man who forgot more songs than you’d ever know
the jokes that didn’t land