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Two Poems by Richard Allen Murphy HMP Chelmsford

Bumble Bee

If I could be, I would be a bumble bee.

To taste what it is to be truly free, is to be a bumble bee.

Fly around from tree to tree, there is nowhere I have to be.

I am not a honey bee you see, no honey from me.

I am just happy to be a bumble bee, that’s free.

True Love

Love is light, love is blue

I couldn’t help but fall in love with you

We met in the back of a hackney carriage

I was single you, were married

We met again three or four times

God forgive me for my crimes.

Call it off is what we had to do

I told you it was best for me and you

I’m sorry for your heart I did break

But I have to for your family’s sake

I could not see your children suffer

Without their mother or their father

As much as I want you in my life

I could not live with taking a family’s mother and wife.