What you do in the bathroom
Nobody knows
If you wash your hands after
Blowing your nose
If you are wearing too small, or too large
Or stained underclothes
If you don"t tell, nobody knows
If you keep a secret which nobody knows
So long as you don't forget and tell
Nobody cares, because nobody knows
After death if you go to heaven or hell
If you don't tell, nobody knows.
-ends-
When I was a child
A toilet was a potty
and the world was full of people
who my mother said were dotty
When I was a child
back in the day
You never looked back
beyond yesterday
When I was a child
I didn't have cares
I was not afraid of bears
And I didn't buy shares
I was only afraid of
Things inside my head
Shadows on the stairs
Spiders hide under the bed
When I was a child
You could walk in the wild
And a day was full of hours
And you could pick wild flowers
When I see a laughing baby
I wonder, maybe
One day, in quite a while
You'll remember now and smile.
-ends-
by Angela Lansury 2022 20 June
