We thought it could wait.

We thought it could wait.

It was a hard truth,

Not easy to learn

Nobody, really

Has time to burn.

But days seemed long,

And lights along the Thames

Were brighter,

When haloed by moonlight.

We lay down in the road

And searched for stars,

Ran between parked cars,

Played a suicidal game

Across a main line.

Not just once,

But time after time.

The chicken run,

It seemed like so much fun,

And still we drank,

‘Til dawn.

It was all so very easy

To sit with strangers.

Share laughs and cigarettes,

Eat bacon rolls

In an all-night café,

Teenage kicks

Rock god cache.

Greasy fingers

Plucking strings on

Twisted guitars.

And the music

Always played.

It seemed so good.

And we thought

All the other things

In life could wait.

How wrong was I?

There comes a time,

When everything

We do has come to pass.

What was an endless time,

Is a best before date.

And it is too late,

To change what is done.

In chasing dreams and

Living on the run,

We missed so much

Of each other.

Lost our way,

Even lost a son,

A brother.

What chance

We pass this way again?

If we had seen

What lay before us,

Would it have been so different?

When looking back,

No matter how long

It might have taken

I would have kept on

Waiting.

Just for you.