Long Distance Runner

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LONG DISTANCE RUNNER

When we walk into the stadium there isn't the slightest hint

Of whether we're running a Marathon or whether it's a sprint.

We line up at the starting-blocks, keen to get away,

But how to organise our race......how to plan our 'day'?

One foot in front of the other.... that's all that occupies us;

And when we find it's a Marathon that really does surprise us.

Would we have planned things differently had we known life would be long?

Would we have paced ourselves sparingly; was our strategy quite wrong?

We acted as though life were a sprint, eager to cover ground,

Always after 'tomorrow' with each thoughtless, eager bound.

We  should have conserved our energy for the long, sometimes lonely way,

When the last few miles would exhaust us, and our hair was growing grey.

The Finishing Tape was ahead of us but we never knew just where,

We only knew we were sprinting as though eager to get there!

When we walk into the stadium there isn't the slightest hint
Of whether we're running a Marathon or whether it's a sprint.
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FROM DAPPER TO RAPPER!

'Dapper' and 'natty',

So top-hatty!

Words from the past

That didn't last.

'Spiffy', as well

Along with 'swell',

Slicked-back hair

With Brylcream care,

Neat bow-tie

And 'roving eye'!

Cigarette holder

Allowed to smoulder.

A different breed?

Yes, indeed!

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Nowadays.....

Altered ways.

Not Errol Flynn

But a stubbly chin.

Young men choose

Huge tattoos!

Who'd have drempt

Of hair unkempt!

And nasal rings!

Such nasty things!

Nothing matters!

Shirts in tatters!

The rule, no doubt,

'Let it all hang out!'

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That word 'dapper'

Doesn't suit a Rapper!

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