Shame

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SHAME

You ask us to write about Shame

And my mind is blank!

Have I led a blameless

As opposed to a shameless,

Life?

No!

I can recall moments of 

Stupidity,

Brashness,

Thoughtlessness,

And, even, Unkindness.

But the memories

Are softened by time.

I'm sure I wasn't that bad after all!

At night I enjoy a dream-free sleep,

The sure sign of a clear conscience.

How is it then

That when I rest on the settee

For half an hour

In the afternoon,

And I doze,

Every stupid action surges back?

Frequently,

I'm jolted back to wakefulness

By the reliving

Of each miserable act!

I wake feeling I have only just committed it!

It is

 So fresh,

So bald,

So appalling,

So humiliating

That the thought kills all slumber.

Of course,

I can't recount my sins to you

Because I am wide awake.

Pity about that!

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A SPECIAL BLANKET

There are millions of blankets like this in the world

But this one is special to me.

It was made, by my Mother a long time ago,

In about nineteen seventy-three.

She made it from scraps of wool given by friends,

So the colours are varied and bright.

 She'd be pleased to know it has kept us warm

On many a cold Winter's night.

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