Poem

Write a 20-line poem of a memorable moment in your life.

Once there was a young man who loved a young woman very much.

The young man acted with charm and the young woman’s heart he did touch.

Together the two of them imagined a life so large.

Twas so full and so real that the young man took charge.

With a carefully placed word and a ring of peridot he asked.

The young woman was smitten and in his want and his need she basked.

The dreams they imagined took shape and the struggle of life was filled with hope.

Although with empty pockets, their friends were few, they did more than cope.

Their love whispered quietly and they sang their feelings loud.

Away from home and drunk on dreams they danced within their own cloud.

This dance took them farther and farther from their abstinence,

Until a week from their union a new life sighed into existence.

The young woman clung to the young man as they declared their bond,

In front of their families the undoing brought joy into the beyond.

Through the misery and the mayhem, they clung to their dream.

And the new life whispered for them to believe.

Until the day of the destiny, when anguish brought their reality to a front with a scream.

For this was the day when the future was forgotten, and the imagined herein was no longer a dream.