Mr. Deleplain

One of my fictitious neighbors whom I watch 'From My Window'

 

Staring out the window, Mr. Deleplain sees another boring day

 

Every day seems just like the last; nothing ever changes

 

He’s lived on this street for 47 years,

 

But now he doesn’t even know his neighbors,

 

Except that Mike guy a little, who’s always just sitting,

 

Gazing out on nothing, and seeing everything

 

Mr. Deleplain used to be somebody; now he’s nobody

 

His children long moved away, and they never come around

 

His wife gone forever to her eternal rest;

 

Now, he’s the invisible man,

 

A pebble thrown into the pond; leaving not a ripple

 

His big excitement for today?  Going to the grocery store,

 

To buy some tasteless gruel to gum down

 

It’s only a couple blocks away, but takes him longer

 

And longer to drag himself there; cursed old age!