I shall tell you a story if I may be so bold
it may prove to be the saddest one ever told
it started back in high school while in my teens
I fell in love with a beauty I thought her my queen
as time went on I am ashamed to say I got her in trouble in the family way
I could have said...it wasn’t my fault, and she could have said the
Same; instead in each other in arms we detrimentally shared the
blame; a twitter feeling rested on my soul as both of her parents were
told we expected, shame, anger, and rage and all other things that make one
age but behold, a truly turn of events the evinced the true meaning of
parents there was none of those bad feelings that I could discern
only a little pity and plenty of concern the explained to us the fatuity of our
deed of the untimely release of my seed after that talk, told with
precision they left it up to us to make a decision we weighed the facts
as carefully as we could all the while I cursed my forceful entrance into
manhood the decision to see the doctor came to our head all the while
wishing some others were in our stead after that visit, we were both broken hearted
and soon afterwards...we parted; my thoughts go back every now and then of a mystery child who would have been ten..
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Veröffentlicht auf e-Stories.org am 30.06.2005.
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