A Life's Story

Something I came up with waiting to do some cleaning

                                                                    A LIFE'S STORY

Never married

Died alone

These are the words

Etched in stone

A sorrowful story

The epitaph does tell

Not a life

Where all ends well

Result of infidelity

During the war

A wife's mistake

Husband can't ignore

No love from parents

Came his way

Just called "B*****d"

Because mother did stray

No hero to look up to

Turned to crime

Far too often

Served his time

As years went on

Full of regret

His life's history

People won't forget

One night he found

He could take no more

Swallowed pills

Fell on the floor

Lay undiscovered

Quite a while

Flies and maggots

In carpets pile

Door knocked down

Remains they found

A putrid stench

In air abound

Neighbours watch

As body bag does leave

Soon to be forgotten

No one will grieve

Funeral held

Nobody came

Born unloved

Died the same

Reviews

[barleygirl]

This is so intensely real, it's satisfyingly good! It's been in my reading library a while (I've been sketchy at the cafe this year) so it's probably not meant as a Halloween piece, but it's fitting in that way, too. Sometimes you don't need to make stuff up to find a spooky Halloween theme. Many lives are so dismal, it's many times worse than the made-up storylines! Your words are so bluntly honest, this just hammers it home with steady rhythm & rhyme, like a funeral march (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[George David Hope]

Glad you liked it. Took about 10 minutes to do as I wrote it at work waiting for the canteen to clear so I could clean it. Like you I haven't been in the cafe as we keep getting virus's every time I post stuff. But saying that I do have a Halloween poem I might post.

[barleygirl]

I've just noticed that I haven't that constant buzzing bee of my Norton security calling out viruses the whole time I'm on this website! It hasn't happened since I last got "banned" (spammed) . . . about a month ago. It's more peaceful without that constant hammering of virus attacks!

[Dave Brown]

sounds a tad grim but I enjoyed all the rhyming
wonder who paid for the funeral

[George David Hope]

Thank you for your kind comment and sorry I didn't reply to it sooner. Didn't take too long to come up with so I wasn't expecting much from it.