Married Too Young

They found out the hard way.

Married Too Young

 

By Elton Camp

 

Butch and Meg were sixteen when they met

Raging hormones on a disastrous course set

Meg told her parents, “He’s the man for me.”

At a frown she added, “A better I’ll never see.”

 

Butch demanded parents’ consent for him to wed

“If you don’t agree, then I’ll just take her to bed.”

His parents didn’t think that it was the thing to do,

But marriage seemed the lesser evil of those two

 

Seven years have now for them come and gone

A change in view each of them has undergone

Butch missed college, burgers and fries to sell

And Meg’s life as a cleaning lady is a living hell

 

Both of them together just barely can get by

To get any savings ahead, they needn’t try

Of any unexpected expense that may appear,

Both of them live in constant dread and fear

 

The couple now argue about money every day

But they never expected it to turn out that way

Both feel cheated of a normal adolescent life

Which they surrendered for misery and strife

 

They found out that ‘love” wasn’t near enough

The shine wore off and their lives are now tough

Will they somehow find a way to make it through

Or is bitter anger and divorce what it has come to?