Nearly Fifty
\nby cricketjeff on December 19, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nFind forty nine reasons for staying alive
\nLike strawberry ice-cream and chocolate surprise
\nA night at the theatre or learning to jive
\nOr drowning in witch hazel eyes<\/p>\n
Find forty nine reasons for getting back home
\nA film on the telly a child who says please
\nA single white lily a flight into Rome
\nA bum that you SO want to squeeze<\/p>\n
Find forty nine reasons to try it again
\nThere’s turkey for dinner and honey for tea
\nNew novels to read and new poems to pen
\nOr head off to swim in the sea<\/p>\n
Find forty nine reasons to give it a go
\nA ring with a sapphire a new pair of shoes
\nA Hollywood star in a new West End show
\nOr B.B. King singing the blues<\/p>\n
Find forty nine reasons for not giving up
\nLike asti or cava or even champagne
\nYour friend’s on the telly your team’s in the cup
\nA summer day ending in rain<\/p>\n
Here’s forty nine reasons to smile at the world
\nA roast chicken dinner a win on the pools
\nA band playing Souza when flags are unfurled
\nThey start teaching rhyming in schools<\/p>\n
With forty nine reasons for hanging on in
\nA jug full of cider and friends round to share
\nThat posh kid from school is now very not thin
\nAnd songbirds are heard everywhere<\/p>\n
Find forty nine reasons for greeting each day
\nAn opera by Mozart a pie in the face
\nA trip to the zoo or a weekend away
\nOr watching a Keystone Kops chase<\/p>\n
Find forty nine reasons this isn’t the end
\nThere’s snow on the ground and the sun’s in the sky
\nA call from a stranger, a note from a friend
\nA lesson in learning to fly<\/p>\n
Now forty nine reasons, if I’ve counted right
\nWhen grass is still green and the sky is still blue
\nA rainbow in daylight the moon every night
\nThe forty ninth reason is you!
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