to start the day

One Day

To rise with a yawn, and greet the day

Or lay abed, as long as I may

Breakfast is over, and work does beckon

It’s time to make tracks, I reckon

My first job of the day, awaits my touch

Just a twist and a turn, it isn’t much

My next call is a service, just once a year

It’s for a customer, I hold most dear

It’s for a little old lady, left alone all day

I stop and talk, as with words we play

On the road again, and my phone is ringing.

Not another one, I’m thinking

An alarm that is faulty, and not far from here

It’s not one of mine, I’m glad to hear

An alarm bell is ringing, it’s old not new

I go to the door, paint white and blue

The noise in the house is hard on the ear

The panel I ask, can you show me where

Take off the cover, and look inside

It’s only the battery, I decide

A test of the system, and every things fine

Reset the alarm, and put back on line

An annual service, why of course I do

And for your daughter, yes one too

It’s getting late, my calls are all done

And now I am on, my homeward run

Van put to bed, and for a shower just time

Your meal will be ready, oh love of mine

Now office work is over, it’s all safely done

Its time Gary’s homework, was begun….