If I were a word (hyphens are acceptable) <br />Take my life at the age of five <br />And using only one word to describe it <br />That word would be 'Happy' <br />I was a happy child <br />Moving on from five to ten, 'Amen' <br />I discovered little girls <br />Then comes ten to the age of fifteen 'Please' <br />Was what I said to all the lovely little ladies <br />Entering my late teens, 'Holy-cow' <br />But Granny warned me not to buy it <br />Went off to war at the age of Twenty, 'Holy-crap' <br />What a shithole <br />Married for the first time I was only Twenty-five <br />It was a year and an exception to my own rules <br />'Deaf, Dumb, Blind and Stupid' <br />She was both beautiful and ugly <br />A virgin whore of immeasurable consequences <br />And I paid dearly for my mistake, okay....'Divorce' <br />Between Thirty and Forty call me ' Savvy' <br />I made lots of money and my new wife and I were 'Happy' <br />God brought us together and two became three <br />He gave us 'Joy' in the birth of our daughter <br />Call me 'Joyful' when she called me 'Daddy' <br />Now I'm old and dying <br />Just as I always knew I would <br />And rather than go out with an epitaph as long as the Nile <br />I think it should be more than adequate to call me 'Dead-Ted' <br />Alas poor guy....I loved them all..... <br /> <br />2007 © T Sheridan<br /><br />Ted Sheridan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/my-life-in-a-word-or-two/
