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Lucie
Senior Member

since 1999-06-20

Posts 1077
Houston

0 posted 2002-01-30 09:54 PM

Once there was a lady who lived just down my street.
She was cold and very bitter to everyone she’d meet.
I used to wonder about her and what made her this way,
until I mentioned her name to my Grandmother one day.

"Miss Lily is a lost soul" my grandma said to me.
"Let me tell you about her story and perhaps then you will see."
"Why she doesn’t speak to people and spends her time alone."
"Why she never has a visitor to the house she calls a home."

When Miss Lily was years younger she was quite a pretty girl,
with eyes of cornflower blue and a head of auburn curls.
When she would go out on the town the boys would stop and stare,
but there was only one man about whom Miss Lily cared.

He was the son of the local owner of tavern in our town
and though his mother was very sweet it was said she got around.
The townsfolk talked about her and the men she entertained.
She had gotten herself in trouble and the rumors still remained.

Now Miss Lily’s father was a judge and quite an important man
and having his daughter marry wealthy was his only plan.
When he learned about her love affair with the boy across the tracks,
he shipped her off to boarding school and wouldn’t bring her back.

For a year Miss Lily was away and the rumors flew around.
Had she spent too much time alone with the boy from cross the town?
Had her father sent her off to hide the fact she was with child?
When I asked Grandma were the rumors true, she looked at me and smiled.

"No Lucie, the stories were a lie Miss Lily was my best friend."
Letters for him she sent to me and his to her I’d send.
Miss Lily was in love with him and he in love with her
and no one could have guessed the end or how it would occur.

When Lily came back from school that fall and met up with her beau
her father, he had followed them, but Miss Lily didn’t know.
When he confronted them together soon pushes came to shove,
her father shot him on the spot and killed Miss Lily’s love.

She never did recover her love just died with him.
She closed herself up in that house and never loved again.
Her father went to prison for the deed that he had done.
He wrote a letter telling her.. her lover was his son.

Remember me with a smile on your face, or please don't remember me at all.

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

1 posted 2002-01-30 10:16 PM

Oh my, what a sad tale this is.
Your story is a poignant one and you've told it well.
Goes to show no one can ever walk in another persons shoes
or possibly understand what they've encountered along the way.
I'm lost for words, suffice to say your poem is deeply moving.

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

2 posted 2002-01-30 10:18 PM

Lucie, I was not prepared for that ending. You are such a wonderful story teller. I really wanted to reach out and talk to Miss Lily.

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

3 posted 2002-01-30 10:25 PM

WOW!! Lucie you sure do tell a story. Had me sitting on the edge of my chair by the time I reached that twist in the ending!!
Sure was not expecting that one!
Excellent read this evening....one to print out and read by the fire.
Thank you for this.
~Hugs, Nancy~

~Time has cast a spell on you,
So you won't ever forget me~

Startime
Member Ascendant

since 2000-10-03

Posts 5918
Canada

4 posted 2002-01-30 10:41 PM

OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!This is absolutely stunning....MAGNIFICENT!!!Sooo powerful and filled with so much emotion....what an amazing ending. **big hugs**

More please.

Love I leave with you whether it is in your life now or yet the essense of your dreams.

Silver Streak
Member Elite

since 2002-01-02

Posts 3625
FL, USA

5 posted 2002-01-30 10:45 PM

Wow! What a wild magnificent story! Thanks!
-newell

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Copyright: 2002 Newell Elsworth Usher

Lucie
Senior Member

since 1999-06-20

Posts 1077
Houston

6 posted 2002-01-30 10:51 PM

Thank you all for your replys.. the sick part is I made it up..haha.. my mind is really twisted.. giggle.. glad you enjoyed.

Remember me with a smile on your face, or please don't remember me at all.

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