She Is a Spinster Seventy Years

She is a spinster
Seventy years of age
and still going strong.

When asked why 
she never married,
She whispered an answer:
“Somewhere in the land
I will never know
my husband was aborted
at the very hour and minute
I was born.”
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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Pigeon Tart Avatar
February 7, 2017 at 10:35 PM
I like this poem.
Ochwo-Oburu Avatar
February 7, 2017 at 10:55 PM
Thanks Maureen for appreciating.
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