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A Gift of Love

I bought my love a white chocolate rose
Filled with honey and strawberry cream
I placed it in the car to get a card
It melted in a chocolate stream

I bought a plant of beautiful bloom
Pink and red and white
But placed it in the hallway
Too drafty and so it died

I bought my love a golden heart
With citrine and sapphires 
A splendid work of art
Glittering strung with wires

But when I placed it on his neck
The chain was much too small
The wire snapped the catch broke
And the stones and heart did fall

And now I simply laughed and cried
And hugged my love so dear
Too late to get another gift
I hugged and loved him as I shed a tear.

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CayCay Jennings

Date: 2/16/2018 8:39:00 AM

I was getting stressed from frustration on your behalf thou I realized you didn't want me, the reader, to do so - stress must be coming from me. This is lighthearted and playful with a moral at the end, it isn't the things, it is the intangible, the love. I love the delivery. Now, let me do something about my stress! Enjoyed this ... CayCay

Kelli White
Date: 2/16/2018 8:45:00 AM

Funny. Sorry. Sometimes I think when you think of pleasing other people you don’t always think of everything. I honestly get gifts for people and give them to them ASAP in fear of forgetting where I put them, or one of my parrots getting it or I have even thrown things out by mistake. Thank you