It's only a cold

[wendy]

ONLY A COLD

On the couch I lie, my temperature high,
I’m feeling decrepit and old.
“You’ve only had it a day, it will soon go away,
it’s only a common old cold.”

So I take pills all day, to keep it at bay
and generally do as I’m told.
As lower I sink, I try a hot drink,
cos it’s only a common old cold.

I get up the next day, but it won’t go away,
to fight it I have to be bold.
My joints start to ache as more potions I make,
for it’s only a common old cold.

I’m bed ridden now, and my head starts to bow,
to feel better I’d give heaps of gold.
How much more can I take, I just can’t keep awake,
It’s only a common old cold.

The Doc shakes his head when he’s called to my bed,
“Much sooner I should have been told.”
I flash back thro the past, my life’s fading fast
It was only a common old cold.

On my headstone they’ll write, cos they’ve now seen the light,
In letters all carved out in gold,
“We thought he was lying, didn’t know he was dying’”
It was only a common old cold.

Stuart Garfoot 1998