WHARFAGE DUE.

The future was lightened down river
To allow it to flow more freely
In and out of the reaches,
And restore more easily its features,
That were only minded really
By the aged and the weary
Who had long ago given up the wait,
And far away gone home to stay
In their dug outs underneath,
Debating up stream courses followed.

Told till the last of their eyes
Fell their coins and bequeathed to the
Knowing of others less fallen;
Though grieved they may be,
And lost without knowledge of
What the most oft
Desired words guarantee:
To keep well and warm and around
For the coming of less cabled
Concerns than at present seem certain.

Alongside and as laden and unloaded,
For all that hard labour can bear,
In the current and stirred circumstance.
Tied by boatmen of good heart
To be landed and bonded and kept
Without rent or complaint from a
Landlord who never comes near anymore,
Whilst the cartage is arranged for the
Next equinox, and prepaid so the haulier
Cannot come to blame another’s dead gaze.