Christy O'Donnell ,Humour in Poetry.

 Shed a tear

I’ll shed a tear this day, because my friend has passed,

One for every year, almost sixty to the last,

For we were the very best of friends, from the first day that we met,

So much gone before us, yet we never had regret,

So, I’ll shed a little tear today, in memory of my friend,

For in every year that passed, each other’s ear we’d bend,

We had our ups and downs, more good times than were bad,

Yet in almost sixty years, to know you I was glad,

We lived we laughed we drank, sometimes we drank a lot,

Yet when times were hard or tough, we shared all we had got,

When trouble came and it surely did, we stood side by side,

Usually on horseback, laughing as we’d ride,

Oh, I could recall memories, some good some truly bad,

The time we shared together, well spent and I’m glad,

If I could choose a friend from one pile or another,

All said and done my friend, I would call you brother,

To say you will be missed by so many you have met,

Each and everyone of them would smile without regret,

I’ll shed a little tear my friend for this is my saddest day,

You couldn’t have planned it better, on a horse to pass away.

punchy