Tomorrow is not another day

If tomorrow never comes
What would you do today
That you didn't do yesterday?
Would you talk to your neighbours?
Smile and say ‘hello' to passing strangers?
Give blood so someone will live and not die?
Cook something special like a plum and apple pie?
Say a prayer hoping someone would listen?
Clean the windows until they glisten?
My answer would be no - why?

If I knew life were to end and that was the world's fate
There would be no reason to either love or hate
Instead I would look at myself from within
And try to search feelings of those without sin
Leave my windows open to let the sun and air pass through
Look up at the sky and say ‘wonderful, it's beautiful'
Try not to worry that the end is nigh
So I've answered my question of ‘why'.

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poem by JeanJacques Evendon
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A Fox's winter's tail

I am the cunning Fox - Renard is my name
I roam around Bockmer looking for game
Rabbits, guinea pigs and chickens will do
And my favourite meal is a duck or two.
Then one day I saw three lovely ones all in one go
Standing on their pond and deep in the snow
I thought that evening a duck for dinner would be nice
It'd make a change from eating squealing rats or mice.
So around midnight I planned my attack
To creep slowly around the back
I cleaned my teeth, I licked my lips and brushed my tail
I knew my plan was watertight and therefore could not fail.
It was cold and the snow so thick
As I set off to carry out my dastardly trick
The moon was full, bright and clear
Then as I approached cautiously from the duck house quacking I could hear.
I had to get close, I had to peek and see
Which one of these lovely birds would fill my hungry tummy
I was nearly there- whiskers away so to speak
When the floor gave way a tremendous creak.

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