Pickles and Ice Cream For Men

THE SHAME OF SHORTNESS It was such a small while But it made me smile A brief encounter with peace Someone whose love I truly believed might never cease Serendipity and joy would birth it Because brevity was worth it If only for a short time She took me to a land sublime And she embraced me as no other woman has before And there have been women by the score And we were good together at least for a little awhile When she came to make me smile I wanted to be one unit, one entity, one heart Whilst serendipity and joy continued to play their apropos and appropriate part The wonderous was the sensation of us being united Then I, as the king of fools, was duly knighted With no swiftly drawn sword in sheath nor shield Only the wish to know what the woman would yield It was such a short time spent resplendently As I treated the lady’s lips with gentility A kiss on the lips of a miss whose lips I miss now And if you wish to learn the way to play a game she’ll be proud to show you how With a wink and a slightly naughty nod To her wicked and wrathful god Who wouldst conceive a plan for a man to become thusly damned But in that short snippet of forever we answered only to one another’s demand Yet and still I cannot recount without understatements a tale of my being lost And swear to you that lady’s well laid plan, for me, came at quite a cost And upon this frivolous heart her name will forever be etched Similar to the painting she created and very well sketched And as for me I swear never to adore anyone after her when all is done Also I vow to harness my compassion until I repeat it with the very next one © 2011.….. Phreepoetree