Lovely

Look thy last on all things lovely

Every hour, an old shag said,

Meaning they turn lovelier if thou

Thinkst about soon being dead.

Do they? When that ‘soon’ means business

They might lose their eye-appeal,

Go a bit like things unlovely,

Get upstaged by how you feel.

The best time to see things lovely

Is in youth’s primordial bliss,

Which is also when you rather

Go for old shags talking piss.