No happy endings
\nby cricketjeff on January 2, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nEach night he sat to wait for her to call
\nWaiting with nothing but the telephone
\nHe knows that she will never call at all
\nYet still he sits and watches all alone<\/p>\n
In sixty years she called him just three times
\nThe only times they spent the night apart
\nYet now he waits to hear the phone bell chimes
\nSo that he knows his life again can start<\/p>\n
Each day he lives and sees the world go by
\nEach night is torture for his heart to bear
\nNo warm and loving arms where he can cry
\nJust waiting knowing she’s not really there<\/p>\n
She died tonight she never knew her name
\nAlzheimer’s stole the ending of their game<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nI have no idea where that comes from, I’ve wanted to write a half decent sonnet
\nfor years, but not a desperately sad one like that.
\nThey are not a real couple, but then again, they probably were…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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