I wish I had made more

of my unconventional life,

embraced more than I could

ever hope to have done,

kissed more than just the few

and the few extra more,

I wish I had not been at times

so damned English and polite

and told a few more people,

stuck up their own arse,

blinded by their own self importance

and governed by their right to believe

that their way is the only signposted route

to happiness,

to fuck off,

but I am so damned English