ObjectWriting.com word-of-the-day: “News-stand”
“News-stand”
I awoke this morning to a beautiful face.
Then she vanished before me without a trace.
Then what I saw, in her face’s place,
was the gift she gave me with such loving grace.
It was my ring on the table, shining brightly in the sun.
Just like the morning we met and I knew her to be the one.
She had come to my news-stand, just looking around,
not for magazines… for something that cannot be found.
She looked up at me and I down at her.
“Can I help you find something Ma‘am?”, I lowered my voice.
“I really don’t know what brought me here, Sir.”
“Perhaps, it was our fate… not a choice.”
She blushed just like on our wedding day.
As the ring slid on her finger, a tear slid down her cheek.
And still now, I mourn her every day,
and no other love shall I ever seek.
2007 © L.J.B.
