I the undersigned accept
my authority being undermined,
all decisions I shall forfeit
my personality will be deemed to fit.
If I take steps to avoid this fate
I will engender a tete a tete
and thus upset this holy estate
so I simply accept the inevitable
and end up a simple vegetable.
Ray,
There are worse things than being a solid, well set in the soil cabbage.
(a fly-blown, moth-eaten, blown about, limp lettuce-leaf for
instance...Face up to it man...marry the woman! ?)
Thanks Suki for your interesting and provocative idea. I think there could be a "intellectual" series of poetic cards poking fun . Any entrepeneurs out there? 10% for the idea please.
Ray
Hi Ray,
I'd love to see Hallmark use this poem in a Valentine or anniversary card, but I'm not sure such witty ironic humour is their thing. That's their loss. Pithy stuff!
Suki
Thanks for your comments elP and Paul. Cynthia, it's very gratifying that you twigged the humorous aspect - I can't be taken literally!
Thanks for liking those lines David. Actually it's more of an own up than a pre nup these days!.
Ray
On the other hand, I don't feel so much 'pain' as rogue-ish hilarity. I think laughter is a huge benefit to any relationship. Fab subject. Good rhyming!
Cor Ray, maybe there is a fate worse than death after all ? I can hear and feel the pain here....?
Paul
elPintor
Tue 28th Mar 2017 00:08
whoooah..I shudder at the thought...
elP
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raypool
Fri 31st Mar 2017 13:41
Thanks Harry for your views - you have given me fresh hope even in stagnation; i'm not quite up to salvation.
In the words of the comic: "it seems like only yesterday we got married; I wish it was tomorrow, i'd cancel it."
Ray