My Friend © TonyFallon 090816

My Friend © TonyFallon 090816

I know my life is not perfect
To all others I give respect.
Even on days when my feelings hurt
I am never snappy never curt
Sometimes I worry about what you think
But when life isn’t rosy it still is pink
Sometimes I worry sometimes I fret
Sometimes I say things I later regret
At the end of the day, I hope you find
That I have to you never been unkind.
But if I’ve said things that have offended
I want our friendship to be mended
At my worst, I can still pull through
Because I have special pals like you

Angel © Tony Fallon090718

Angel © Tony Fallon090718

I shall never forget

The day we met

With you I wanted to acquaint

Before your beauty made me faint

In your eye there was a gleam

I pinched myself in case this was a dream

I’m sure when I spoke my word were slurred

And I know very well my eyes were blurred

I was finding it hard to vocalize

I was under a spell by those blue eyes

My heart was doing pirouettes

I didn’t know angels came as brunettes

Summer 2018©TonyFallon090518

 Summer 2018©TonyFallon090518

The rain came down in torrents

And came up the street like a wave

The lightning flashed

The thunder crashed

And I looked on confused

Summer was slow in coming

And never reached full speed

It was not the typical weather

We didn’t get three good days together

The sun worshipper surely felt abused

The wet May days came in August

It rained for days on end

And flooded many plains

And flooded many drains

And ruined the growing food

There were a few good days

We thought our prayers were answered

Then hellish heat engulfed the population

And caused loads of perspiration

And left us all subdued.

I Could Have © TonyFallon090418

I Could Have © TonyFallon090418

I could have gone to college but I had to go to High School at night
I always rode the subway there and for supper had a junk food bite
Mc Donald's was not too healthy but it was all I could afford
And I overheard my guts rumbling as I did math on the black board
My uncle said you are going nowhere without an education
And you have to get a High School Diploma for a firm foundation
He said with extra education you can have clean hands and riches
Or you can wear hob nail boots or wellingtons and go digging ditches
Long summer evenings I would be in class while all my friends enjoyed sports
Up in Cortland Park playing football or hurling in jerseys and shorts
When there would be an important game some of them would be complaining
That I always got to play even though I never showed for training
The manager who knew about me said there's room for "A Professor"
He reminded them as a goalie I kept away the oppressor
The classes moved on and after some exams the teacher was impressed
And he said that while I lacked hours I could sit for the two day State test
When I left the test center that night there only remained the proctor
I passed somehow but the last in a medical is still called doctor
If I wasn't a Pioneer I think on that weekend I would have drank
Days later with that paper I got a new job with Chemical Bank
Home in Ireland my mother was so proud she'd tell everyone she'd meet
That her son was a banker in America working on Wall Street.
I have my own place in Catskills now and my wife is oft is stitches
When she sees me a mile away fixing up the boundary ditches

Giving© TonyFallon090318

Giving© TonyFallon090318

I gave him five single dollars and he said you are philanthropic
I said I don't know about that but my eyesight is myopic
I got out the dictionary to find if it was a curse or a noun
And was surprised at the use of such a word in a country town
For all the things I've done for the poor they say I'm communistic
But some of the kinder ones who agree with me call me altruistic
My mother was a Blessed Martin fan and we sold his tickets twice a year
So at a very early age we were taught how to be a volunteer
If I wasn't playing soccer in Dublin I gave time to the Blind boys Schools
And went as far as Drogheda and Kilkenny to sell the soccer pools
I've stood on snowy corners directing the poor to homeless centers
And for people who have English problems I've tried to be their mentors
I ran for blocks once after a punk who stole an elderly woman's purse
I got all her money and credit cars back and she went home no worse
I've hosted radio shows for free for the local community
I've trained many to do the same and was glad of the opportunity
For many church fundraisers in Ireland I was the all night MC
And for many others I donated my Dee Jay services for free
I'll never forget the night fundraising for the Dublin Disco fire
Every penny we got at the door went home or I'm a God damn liar
I entertained Irelands Special Olympians and felt so very blessed
When a young lad went bananas when he recognized me from Radio West
I have three fine strong sons and they were not afraid to sacrifice
Their deeds are in You Tube they were not afraid to pay the price
Five times already I've cheated death to my family that was shocking
But God must be happy with what I'm doing he has not come knocking

Going Home © Tony Fallon090318

Going Home © Tony Fallon090318

If I had money to burn, I'd stay away from fire
And I'd probably go back to Ireland and retire
If I had that kind of money I don' think I could wait 
To go over to Cork and buy Mike Flatley's fine estate
But I have enough saved to invest in a modest dwelling
And our house in Yonkers I am definitely selling
I was not happy leaving Ireland so many years ago
So I think I'd like to spend my days in Leitrim or Sligo
I'd bring along my loving wife my lifelong mate
If I brought someone else there would be a heated debate
If I would build a house I'd have to make it cozy
With a fence to keep out dogs and people that were nosy
And we know with new construction the total can go overboard
And prices that was quoted in estimates are often ignored
I'd probably settle for a house that's already built
If I had rent another house I'd feel a bit of guilt
We'd never get back the money we'd have to pay in rent
And that money could be used to make a pathway with cement
But if I buy an old house there it cannot have a ghost
And it would have to be in a spot that overlooks the coast
It would have to face the Atlantic with a breeze every day
Blowing across the ocean from New York in the USA
That's the place in America where for forty years I toiled
And when I'd get home tired and hungry my hands were often soiled
But the working man gets well paid and goes home content and proud
I wouldn't talk about a house in Leitrim if I stayed home and plowed

Beauty And Love©TonyFallon0901

Beauty And Love©TonyFallon090118

She had that look about her and I knew it was class
She should have been rich born instead of country lass
I think I loved her at first for what she could have been
She could have been the daughter of a King or Queen 
She was not unhappy and she seemed to lack expectations

I could not understand why we had no complications

She had beauty she had grace and natural charm
The equal of the finest yet she was born on a farm
Of the poverty she lived she never once complained
When I thought of all she was missing my heart was surely pained
I asked her once how she'd feel if asked her to walk out
And would her father and mother fret and fume or pout 
We'd walk for two miles or so to a seat by the local brook
Then read stories every evening from a favorite book
I asked her one evening why she had not tried matrimony
She said her father could not afford the holy ceremony.
She said her parents sacrificed to buy her skirts and blouses
But she came from the laborers cot not one of those fine houses
I said I had little but love and it would last forever more
And I'd marry her in the morning in the clothes that she wore
We decided then and there to elope much to her delight
And we told our four parents before we kissed good night
She was radiant with pleasure the day of the wedding
And we were husband and wife by the second reading
It was a small church wedding and we were not too errant
Joined in the sight of God a delight to the heart of any parent
I don't believe in superstition but there were many days of luck
In our little home in Mount Talbot on the banks of the River Suck
Then the cursed cancer came and took her after a courageous fight
And the three little ones and I cry ourselves to sleep almost every night.