Love Poem: Ambitions
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Written by: Terry Ireland

Ambitions

He wanted to be a Toreador
He’d bought a suit of light
He practised with his mother’s cape
Nearly every single working night

He could perform The Veronica
With a certain style and grace
Always maintaining the required
Look of haught there on his face
He felt close to perfection
Felt he’d reached his peak
just needed to face a first bull
Within the next few week

From his base in Macclesfield
That place he held dear as home
Prospect he knew were limited
Just knew he’d have to roa.]

He hitched down the motorway
Ended up at the docks in Hull
Found an economy cabin on
A ferry that wasn’t very full

He ended up in Europort
And did he feel a fool
Wished he’d learned his geography
Back home in school
Holland was another country
Full of new and different sights
But sadly he soon realised
They didn’t stage bull fights

He found a job in Amsterdam
In a place maybe just a little tacky
But to his delight he found
It stocked lots of wacky baccy

He has a new life there now
One of relative bliss and ease
Just himself and his new girl
To consider and to please
Bulls are all safe now I think
He spends each and every night 
Wrapped there in his lady’s arms
Both giggling high as kites

The moral of this story is 
He now leads a life so rich and full
If he’d learned his geography right
He’d have ended up fighting bulls