If You Were

If You Were

 

If You Were

Oh bold enough

And had the nerve

Like me myself

You would as me

Well in your way

Take up the pen

 

But apparently

You nay not are

Like that at all

Save but once or twice

 

Sigh sigh sigh

So say I

But only as a tease

Not like a wagging of

The disappointed finger

 

Yet if you were

I'd find the time

To read of you

As you find the when

To read of mine

 

If you were

I but say this

To spur thee on

As I like to some

To others invite

The chase of write

 

Charles Petrie