To Jennifer, Who I Love

For an age, I pored over my text editor

Searching for words that might rhyme with 'Jennifer ';

It was such a colossal mental expenditure

To find a suitable and well-chosen metaphor

That would raise her heart rate and temperature

And keep her with me ‘til we’re old aged pensioners…

But, sadly, I couldn’t think of any.

Perhaps I’ll have more luck with 'Jenni',

For surely the words must be many

That rhyme fully, or even just… semi -

But soon my heart grew heavy

So I slipped out to spend a penny

Because actually, I couldn’t think of any -

Even though I work part-time in a library!

So I think I’ll just start again-y.

So how can I express my love and desire

When I can’t even find the words I require ?

To explain you’re the only one I admire,

To tease you and set your heart afire

For the same flame consumes me, complete and entire

Like an ant beneath a giant magnifier,

And rocks me and rolls me, like a hot tumble drier

‘Til I’m lost and I simply have to enquire

Where I’m going with this because I seem to have digressed a bit.

So I’ll just end this ditty by wishing you "Happy Birthday", Jennifer.

Because I love you, all the way down to the, um, molecular…