A~Baby, the Dream

A-Baby, the Dream

Years from now it was, but a familiar neighborhood

It was time, the bus had come and gone

Where is she?

Searching frantically, one block to the next

then back so antically1…

Me ~ a total wreck, I’d better check

“It’s been awhile now, is she home now?”

Cutting in and around houses, and again the alley

Cars parked here and there, like Silly-Sally

Eye spy, movement sideways to the side

but in a hurry still was I,

over my shoulder, it became colder…

Oh my, is it? Is it really her? ~ Dear God, hold her…

“What are you doing in that car, with that guy?!?”

WORRIED ~ “Do you realize I would’ve died?!?”

tears well up in her eye…

“You care now, WHY?!!? You left and lied…

needed you most at that time…was me!”

A cloudy chilled day,

as if I were a bell tower incarnate, Her words rang

around it…

legs failing, collapsing

I began to sob uncontrollably, unconsolably, aLL so knowingly

She was right, a promise I did break

never real, just a fake

never again would it to be like bait

I let her down.

lost I had, and He…he was glad

and Me just sad, sad, sad

and Me still held, pulled…pulled egregiously to the ground

By: MaryBethHicks-kbh, aka ‘Me-maw’

May 2015 [Copy Rights]; Revised: 2017 [Copy Rights]

[1] antically © \\adjective; depicted, specifically, for this this limerick.

Definition: slang \\ a combination of words: "frantically" and “antic”¬ to "antically".