The signal from Tonga just became stronger

A pathetic attempt at poetry, I know, but when your day starts with working a brand new DXCC in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that you doubted you might ever hear, never mind work, then you can afford to become a bad poet.  So here goes:

The ham's Pacific dream

I listened on the bands for days and days,

for a weak signal from a land far away,

when all hope had begun to fade,

I tuned up on twenty metres one day,

to find "alpha three" singing through the air,

with a signal strength not weak, but quite fair,

so I switched my antenna, and put on the split,

tuned up the amp, and on his QSX I did sit,

when all of a sudden, out of the noise,

I heard Kilo Charlie, on the key I did poise,

I gave him the call, and he came back with mine,

so I gave it again, and added five nine nine,

like a glorious echo, from the land of beyond,

I heard my five nine nine, like a beautiful song,

and all of a sudden, without much ado,

I had another DXCC in the log, and shouted "yahoo"!

Thank you my friends, deep down in yonder ocean,

for making my day, and fulfilling my notion,

that some day I would work such a faraway team,

in Tonga, dear Tonga, the ham's Pacific dream.

Below is a video showing the A35YZ signal strength on my Butternut vertical just after I worked them. If you like the above poem, there's something wrong with you!