~
Ninety years young!
She seemed pretty strong
As the day
She turned
Twenty-one.
Oh, I should’ve known
she wouldn’t have gone
for hi-jinx and hyper bellow.
But, I’m a son-of-a-gun,
If she wasn’t as strong,
As the one day
She was still
Twenty-one.
But now my heart breaks,
Cause I took her a cake.
And it turns out
she was just twenty-eight!
Imagine surprise,
She collapsed at my eyes;
And right there,
At twenty-eight,
She dies!
So, she wasn’t that strong;
She was still pretty young!
But, that’s the last time
– I Swear! –
I’ll be wrong.
~
©2013, Marvin Loyd Welborn
20 May 2013
revised 03 April 2014
