Married Too Young
Married Too Young
By Elton Camp
Butch and Meg were sixteen when they met
Raging hormones on a disastrous course set
Meg told her parents, “He’s the man for me.”
At a frown she added, “A better I’ll never see.”
Butch demanded parents’ consent for him to wed
“If you don’t agree, then I’ll just take her to bed.”
His parents didn’t think that it was the thing to do,
But marriage seemed the lesser evil of those two
Seven years have now for them come and gone
A change in view each of them has undergone
Butch missed college, burgers and fries to sell
And Meg’s life as a cleaning lady is a living hell
Both of them together just barely can get by
To get any savings ahead, they needn’t try
Of any unexpected expense that may appear,
Both of them live in constant dread and fear
The couple now argue about money every day
But they never expected it to turn out that way
Both feel cheated of a normal adolescent life
Which they surrendered for misery and strife
They found out that ‘love” wasn’t near enough
The shine wore off and their lives are now tough
Will they somehow find a way to make it through
Or is bitter anger and divorce what it has come to?
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