I used to be quite wild

Skulking the underworld

Wielding paint like a weapon

I used to be quite wild

Dangerous and then some

Awakened by night

Fucking everything in sight

I used to be quite wild

When poets and madmen 

charmed the fuck out of me

I followed their aim
shot carelessly

At me in my room

I knew what women meant to me

I spent a lifetime arguing

the best of me

I used to be quite wild

Older now in glove soft love

We watch telly from

Under the duvet

Close and regretful

Of all we were meant to be

The cats come or go as they please

I used to be quite wild

Nothing turns out like the dream

A man comes along like a flag unfurled

We eyeball the world

My bayonet is lowered

I think about hurling the last

Unrestrained blow
and I don’t

It’s marriage it’s love

it’s divine capitulation

I used to be quite wild

Instead I’m a nation

Of two undecideds

Wild or tamed it is

Us who are riders

Side saddle

Bareback

I used to be quite wild

Braying songs and drunk stories

We are in this world

Quite wild and tamed

At the same time

 Like a bomb just waiting

For the very best time

Like a warrior remaining

In love and in rhyme