I have always wondered how a man would know
When, from thousands of all kinds of women, met
Among patchoi, parsley, celery and beet,
Carrots, sweet potatoes, chicken and red meat,
Onions, lettuce, tomatoes, in the market,
Certificates and papers in the office,
Congregations of believers in churches,
Crowds and carnivals of costumes on the street,
That this one was the one that he was meant
To spend and share the rest of mortal life with.
Funny, the answer was so easy, that date,
You said to me those first few words of interest,
Hello, can you tell me, enquired the time;
Half past three, my watch ticked fast, my heart thumped hard,
I knew it in my head and in my heart,
Both you and I had loved and felt the hurt,
The pain of unrequited love before;
That to get her, life could get much better,
Together, to fill the blue void in my world,
By giving, gratifying, and receiving,
New life of never-ending love and caring.
Tested and then touched by Tess in time of need,
Heaven sent the rib, missing when I was born,
Sent to earth an angel, in female form;
The answer to my fervent prayer and faith
After the pain, the patience and the long wait.
Copyright ©2010 by G. Newton V. Chance
- G. NEWTON V. CHANCE
- George Newton Vivian Chance (Trinidad and Tobago) -- member of the Poet Society of Trinidad and Tobago, http://poetssocietytt.blogspot.com/ and the World Poets Society, http://world-poets.blogspot.com/ -- born in Tobago on 3rd March 1957. While residing at Rio Claro was inspired to write over a hundred poems at the turn of the Millennium. Hobbies include playing wind instruments, building computers, observing nature, reading and writing poetry. Believes that the power of a song is in its ability to evoke emotions by the marriage of lyric and music but that music without lyric can be just as powerful, that lyric without music can also be just as powerful, that there is music in the lyric and that lyric can be simple yet profound. Also, in this the age of computers, would like to model his lines after simple and efficient code and, analogous to Object Oriented Programming, achieve most of his imagery from nouns and verbs, avoiding the bloat and excess of unnecessary adjectives. This is what he aspires to attain in his poetry.
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