The Retired Bloke

Cake

Tea cups clinking

Tea pots pouring

People chatting 

Friends are laughing

A tea shop is the place to be

But it’s not the tea it’s the cake for me

It doesn’t matter whether it’s a 

Brownie 

Banoffee

Coffee

Or Dundee

Maybe even a

Strawberry

Panettone sometimes

A fondant fancy

My mouth waters at the thought of a 

Babka

Babousa

Banana

Genoa

Jaffa 

Madeira

Opera 

And Pavlova

Sometimes I fancy an

Apple

Angel

Marble 

And fat rascal

Other times I’m drawn to a

Carrot

Chocolate

Coconut

And Charlotte 

Nothing else matters for just one moment

When cake alone’s the most important component.