Poetry Thursday

The Two Spoiled Cats have provided for us this picture to inspire us for Poetry Thursday

  

The screen door slammed Mary’s dressed swayed

John watched from the edge of the driveway since he had been told to stay away

He yelled to her that she should climb in the front seat and their life would be nothing but play

She looked at him, sighed and said “Not today.”

The next week he followed her to work

Her life was very boring she was an office clerk

When she saw John looking at her through the window wearing a smirk

And she waved him off and called him a jerk. 

The years went on, Mary married and had kids

But of John she could not be rid

Her husband urged her to get a restraining order which she did

And John was told by the judge seeing her again was forbid.

John promised he would never darken her door

That is what the Internet was for

He paused as a widow who owned a bookstore

Mary made friends with the fake profile and John knew he could keep tabs on her forever more.

It stayed that way for years as they did age

His friends told him to move on but he couldn’t turn the page

Her husband passed when his lymphoma reached the genital stage

John decided to see her, but put it off, knowing it would send her into a rage

John was moving much slower

Instead of a a bike he had a mower

He put his faith in God in took off to see her

With a recliner on the back of the mower he would be her chauffeur

When Mary saw him she ran out of the elderly care door

She told him she was ready and that he couldn’t ignore

As she climbed in the chair and they took off his heart did soar

Unaware that Mary had dementia and thought she was going on a carriage with the duke of Windsor