The Gossip
The Gossip
By Elton Camp
At a meeting where my family attend
Comes a woman acting as a friend
“There is something that only I know.
Conscience makes me tell you though.”
To her words I give a suspicious eye
But not because she’d deliberately lie
Paper on windows keeps demons out?
That belief makes her word in doubt
Young as her son is her present mate
Makes me suspect what she may relate
Control of her own life she must learn
If respect for her report she will earn
“Your teenage daughter I saw on a date
With a boy whom I’m sure you’ll hate.
I think you shouldn’t let her do that way
So get her in hand and make her obey.”
What she reported I already knew
Because I had been at the mall too
Away from us daughter didn’t slip
Rather, she was taking a class trip
She walked away from the rest
Up came a boy she does detest
As she was trying to take a walk,
He followed her and tried to talk
The Gossip came along just then
That is how her story did begin
The facts she assumed she knew
Without seeing if they were true
I called my daughter standing near
Her wrath the Gossip should fear
A tongue-lashing I did foresee
“Now tell her what you told me.”
Copyright © Elton Camp | Year Posted 2010
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