I'm At Odds

Note: I choose to re-post this oldie from my other blog, 'birdhouse'. This was inspired by prompt no. 29 for 2010, of Writer's Island -  Quandry

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Image: Courtesy of Google images

I’m in a Quandry

He swore he was not going to lose sleep over it,

After all, it was such a trivial matter

He didn’t expect it could come to this

Others had been guilty of far worst

Couldn’t  we just let bygones be bygones?

To ere is human and to forgive is divine

Let us trace how it began

It happened innocently enough

She bumped into her

Whom she hadn’t seen the likes since they went separate ways

Dictated by her father’s transfer

The vagaries of the job of a law officer

Ever changing house,

ever on the move

What was it, 10 yrs ago?

Yes it was that long.

That was when she was abandoned

She was a bother then

Now she came back into her life

It’s not going to be easy for me

It’s going to cause strife

There’s now someone

Vying for her affections

So demure, so loving so warm

How she had missed her , her favourite

Longingly looking at her

With dreamy eyes so sincere

If we hadn’t turn into that corner

We may not have met her

Now there she was

It had been a long time

She couldn’t resist

It was not going to happen again, not ever

She could not pass this over

I gave in

She went nearer , looked in her eyes

She swore this was it

The moment of reckoning

The one she had missed

Beautiful , tender and warm

We paid for it,

we brought home

A Siamese cat

for a pet!

Submitted for Poetry Pantry #90