Poem #9 - Michael O'Leary

Another Dream of You, too!

After our usual denial, affirmation

Conversation, you asked me if I had

Seen U2 on TV. With indignation

I replied, as a band they aren’t bad

Although Bono annoyed me at times

With pompous utterances and demeanour.

You said they sang one of our favourite rhymes

‘With or Without You.’ Past-midnight hour

I awoke alone, and again without you

As the radio’s song faded in the night

The announcer said “from the Joshua Tree”

With or without you I can’t live, is too 

Apt a sentiment, uncannily right

As expression of the love of you and me