Sunday, December 8, 2024

Today is the Date

Today is the date that

John Lennon was shot.

Each year at this time

It affects me a lot.


Not for John Lennon,

Though I was a fan,

But for somebody else,

Whose death wasn’t the plan.


My dad had a bypass,

But still was alive,

When I heard on the news 

Lennon didn’t survive.


Yet sadly, my father,

Two days later died,

So it was for him

All the tears that I cried.


Still, every December

The eighth, when I think

Of my dad, I remember

The John Lennon link.


Two fine men passed away 

Well before it was time

And though one was a murder,

Both felt like a crime.





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