Granny's Banana Tree

My granny, a sweet old lady,
brought me up with loving care
ever since I was a little baby,
cleaned me up when I was soiled
and as a child I was quite spoiled.

"You're my sweetest, little monkey",
she often said to me,
"some day you'll climb the banana tree
and bring the biggest bananas to me."

I'm now an old man
in failing health,
gone is my granny,
my family and wealth,
I now live in Chelsea
in a furnished room
and often in gloom
I think of my
impending doom,
but sometimes
in my dreams I see
my granny
and the banana tree.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2009 Alfred Charasz