  | David Smylie
David Smylie, Belfast, Father, teacher and poet. David has been writing and performing poetry for the past four years and is a member of www.belfastpoets.com. David’s poems have been published in the Sunday Tribune, The Lonely Poets Guide to Belfast and the Ringing the Changes Anthology. One poem appears on a glass mural that was commissioned by the Community Arts forum. His poem "Last post" is on a CD recorded at the NTL studio at the Waterfront Hall. |
Will You by David Smylie | Leave me a legacy daddy
I promise I wont tell mum
Father and son in cahoots
To outsiders
I will keep stoom
Leave me a legacy daddy
One that I can pass on
A simple word of wisdom
Or a warning of where
You went wrong
Leave me a legacy daddy
Of how to make people smile
To find humor in adversary
To cry when emotion is strong
Leave me a legacy daddy
Show me how to see
From small dreams about
Nothing
To the sun, stars and me
Leave me a legacy daddy
But don’t leave it too late
I need my legacy now daddy
The material things can wait.
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