I picked two flowers for you
From a neighbours garden
Hoping you'd call on me
As you often did weekends
I placed them in a tumbler
Which sat in pride of place
Grinning out the window
To be first to see your face
But you didn't come that day
Or even send a text
I had no word from you
That day or even the next
How was I to know you'd met
Another Romeo
Walked with him holding hands
Kissing in his studio
The flowers died like your love
I'm all alone again
How I'll miss your sweet lips
I loved you my sweet Elaine
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So sweet, especially the lines:
ReplyDelete'I placed them in a tumbler
Which sat in pride of place
Grinning out the window
To be first to see your face'
but so sad that the flowers died like her love.
A story too often told.. and it is never easier to contemplate rejection and disappointment.
ReplyDeleteThe flowers died like your love
ReplyDeleteI'm all alone again
It is a letdown when a boy gets dumped but it is a learning experience to be better prepared for the next conquest!
Hank
So heartbreaking and sad.
ReplyDeleteOhh this is heart-wrenching and beautiful both at the same time 💕
ReplyDeleteThis is like every classic love story ever played... so sad, and so true (what is a simple flower if you compare it to a penthouse studio)
ReplyDeleteSuch hope, always, in the blossoms ... and such disappointment.
ReplyDeleteAnd Sweet Elaine is gone. The rhyme is nice, you did good with it. Mrs. Jim and I, neither of run anymore. My left knee joint is a transplant, as is Mrs, Jim's right hip.
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I thoroughly enjoyed this, stanza two my favorite.
ReplyDeleteVery nice!
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