It\'s my father\'s birthday today,
another special day, a landmark
we are so very lucky to see.
I rush over straight from work,
with Licorice Allsorts
and a bottle of single malt whiskey.
I want to tell him I love him,
and thank him for everything.
Instead I tell him a bad joke
I heard at work.
He replies and tells me a joke
that\'s older than I am,
that I\'ve heard hundreds
of times before.
And we raise our glasses
and laugh with tears in our eyes.