A Birthday Poem by Thomas Tallis

                                          WISHING YOU A VERY, VERY, VERY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY

                                                                    Thomas Tallis

                         

                          Three birthdays ago we met;

                          A new friendship, full of arguments

                          Discussion for hours and hours

                          Endless poetry,

                          All the time moulding ourselves

                          Into the hardened nutcases we are today

                          I’ve learnt a lot from you in many different ways

                          From Statistics to not accepting second best

                          But I’ve so learnt how to see the real Tom behind all the illness

                          How he is crazy and so full of charisma and ideas

                          As much as we argue every single day about anything at all,

                          I’d never change a thing

                          We are as we are

                          Love Tom Tom

                          Written on the occasion of Tom Leonard’s 67^th Birthday

                          24^th March 2015