Jan | 09 | I Shall Have

I Shall Have

PREAMBLE: - Rev 3:12 says: 1 Tim 6:6,7 says: Now godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. NKJV.

My wife and myself used run a young people’s group that met on Sunday evenings. Our own kids are grown up now but with some amusement we remember them and the kids of our youth group and God help us, even ourselves as teenagers and our completely unrealistic and dreamy desires! Most teenagers have no idea that they have to work for a living and that work is hard and stuff is expensive. Unless you are waiting for your rich parents to peg it and leave you the family jewels, then life shall be hard and expectations soon dashed or readjusted to dashing point. I think I need a drink!

PERFORMANCE TIPS:This is a poem of life contrast, expectant teenage years to the realism of the grave. The tone is taken directly from the journal of King Solomon himself, Ecclesiastes. Start happy and grinning, finish sad and astounded, bitter and 1 disappointed with all your work. It’s very much like real life, so as you get older you should read it better. Where’s that drink again?

As to speed, this is a 2/4 time poem. It takes a lot of breath and the wording of short 6 and 5 syllable staccato lines are going to leave you breathless, so do breathe deeply before you start, just after the first line which draws you nicely to the edge of the steep run down. At the line ‘When I’m older’, you must completely change the speed. Slow it down like a speeding wagon, suddenly turning into a very muddy lane. At the last, the final consonant of ‘Sssss’ needs to be said with the sound of a balloon having its final breath in the world before it exhausts itself into limp sagginess. O.K. here we go then:

I Shall Have

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When I leave home I SHALL HAVE:

A four poster bed

And my own black cat

A word never said

And my own rubber hat

A scooter with a hooter

And a big red nose

A global ban on cabbage

And a new set of clothes

A large wad of notes

And me own spending money

A white sandwich toaster

And a pot of runny honey

A self-cleaning kitchen

With a pink swing bin

A bottle labeled ‘Perrier’

That’s really full of Gin

A pocket full of petals

And music on the breeze

A garden without nettles

And a teeny tiny sneeze

An ear that always listens

And a nice clean shoulder

A pair of big strong arms

To hold me when I’m older

When I’m older,

When I’m older

When I’m older still

I shall have a nurse

With a large green pill

A large brown box

Sealed with all my mirth

A six foot hole

Full of stale wet earth

Oh when I leave,

When I leave,

I shall posses

2 A briefcase full of nothing

And a bag of

Emptinessssssssssssss

© 2012 Victor Robert Farrell

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1 Ecclesiastes 2:22-23 says: For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun? For all his days are sorrowful, and his work burdensome; even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity. NKJV

2 Ecclesiastes 2:18-20 says: Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me. And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity. Therefore I turned my heart and despaired of all the labor in which I had toiled under the sun. NKJV

Anyhoo - I do hope you enjoyed the poem!