Dear Hawarden

Crispy blazer, trouser creases
 Careful, caring and clean shaven with a dash of aftershave
 All the boardgames you could win
 Before I got tall enough to shake your hand
 Make me laugh, once again
 Arguably we were always swimming against the tide
 Tom and Jerry in the afternoon
 Broke too soon and I'll never tell you
 All I wanted was for you to better
 Every illness they could throw at you
 I can't remember what I wore
 Miss your crosswords on my arrival,
 Miss you picking berries in photos in my diary
 Everything I missed when you weren't
 Relive everything I dreamed and tell me I'm mad
 To miss something I never saw
 Saw you fall to the lounge room floor
 If only I'd known to make you laugh
 All I wanted was for you to better
 Every illness they could throw at you
 20 years too late and you'd say you missed something
 But really, I missed the best part of you
 Tell me I can't long for this
 Tell me I've held onto this
 It's all interwoven with your humble relief
 The only section that never came around for me
 To photosynethesise
 And reproduce your swell