Don't miss deadlines or your lifelines
Sadly I missed my very first
So I was born Caesarian
My delay had not been rehearsed
Our five-year-old learned about time
She demanded a big pink clock
She watches as the hands turn round
Breakfast, travel to school, bed, stop
She knows about tricycles and bicycles
About big buses and long trains
She looks at pictures of big ships
Cruise liners and big aeroplanes
She asked, 'What is a lifeboat for?'
We don't want to make her panic
No need to tell her of shipwrecks
Rules dating from the Titanic
We tell her you must have plan B
For each eventuality
If your big ship is stuck on rocks
Go home on small boats pulled from blocks
Another deadline passed today
My poem missed it yesterday
So it will not be in a book
But it's on here, dear, when you look.
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