Homeward Bound

I arrived in the August of Twenty twenty-three,

To the land of smiles my lady to see

To her farm we moved, District Sis a ket in Kanthararom 

To me my sweetheart to the rest she was Mum

There a dog named Ling Long spoilt like a child

But the other seventeen dogs seem to run wild

Fields of rice as far as you could see 

With water so deep it was up to the knee

The youngest child a daughter who like to run wild

Beautiful like her mother but a rambunctious child

The only son quiet though a fine scholar he be

We didn't talk often a trait of his mother you see

The middle daughter working and often away

She was clever and beautiful in her own way

The eldest a mother too and for her siblings as well

She was hard working thoughtful and treated me swell

We built a home which we all would live in

Then word of another came to my sweetheart’s sugrin

For the second child and her partner of Chinese descent

Were wed and soon to them a baby was sent 

So baby and mother now share a room 

But alas the father works and won't be home soon 

As for me I want there always to be 

A spot on her double bed saved just for me

But before we retire here forever a happy family 

I must go back to my homeland for a pension for me

For the laws of my land say that while I am still  entitled in a way

I must be there two years prior to claim on my sixty-seventh birthday

I will work until then in what I do best

Putting my skills of sales to the test

But I now am expanding and using new skills

By writing my memoirs to give other the chills

A life of adventure should not be wasted

I let others experience what I have tasted

My books now in three are all about my adventures

With six more to come focussed on different dementures

Some may say what has happened to me is crazy

Though I always survive though sometimes a bit hazy

So my adventure continues now onto a Yatch

To sail Shageye Charlie is the next part of my plot

But I can’t be away from my sweetheart too long

For only together will we complete this love song

I will bring her to me as fast as can be

Arranging for her a Visa not easy you see

But I will never give up no way no how 

Until both of our Governments us together allow

She is smart, fierce and confident, but still childlike sometimes

Her love always so committed, we will be together for all time.