Paikin's Song

The Tone Is Not

The tone is not
Nay not simple enough
For you old friend
Well how about this
Look at where we are
There is no room
For the care you would
Yes would wish you for
This nobody dead

Yes I thought that was
The gist of what
You meant to say
Though I wanted it not
To so be the case
We must now
But settle this

I suppose we must
Which is too bad for you
For we both know
I'm the better one
Of the two of us

Be that as it may
This I cannot allow
To go like so
As your uncaring way
Needs but end so now

Then make it end
If so you can
My old friend
But I surely doubt
That you so can

Charles Petrie