A Happy accident

narrative verse

 

A happy accident

 

Alone. Alone always alone

 The warmth of love I’d never known.

Conceived upon a one night stand

 and then abandoned out of hand.

 

Nobody ever wanted me.

It seemed I was condemned to be

unloved unwanted and alone

My heart grew cold and turned to stone.

 

I could not love, no one showed me

 affection: I could not see

that to receive I had to give.

And so I lived in misery. 

 

I grew up in an orphanage

until I had attained the age.

When they considered I should be.

 Grown up enough to be set free.

 

Not their responsibility

and that is how I came to be.

 A dweller in bed sitter land.

Nobody seemed to understand.

 

Just how lonely life can be

I knew that no one cared for me.

I thought that no one ever would

 nor could I see why they should.

 

Until one day I found a friend

 my loneliness was at an end.

She was an orphan just like me

 and had endured the misery.

 

 Of feeling that she was alone

unwanted  too by anyone.

I needed her she needed me

We learned together we could be.

 

Good friends who earned each others trust

 and very slowly to adjust.

 Adopt a different point of view

and realise it was not true.

 

   That we were not unlovable

and that we were quite capable

of giving and receiving love

A treasure which we rate above.

 

All of the trapping of success

To suffer no more loneliness

To love and be loved in return

 A lesson that we had to learn.

 

 Which banished all our misery.

Now we are married happily.

 And have two children of our own

Deep love has from a friendship grown.

 

11-Oct-08

 

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Reviews

[Helen Woodward]

Nice sentiments here and you have placed the possibility of love for everyone in this space. This is a story within a story, quite an accomplishment. It mimics narrative in that it has a beginning, end and middle, it tells a definately poignant story...amazing!
Helen :-)