Sunday Mini-Challenge & Open Link Monday posts

 

A Grain of Love

It was love at first sight, she thought.

A fiery hot courtship followed, she was persistent,

their being together nearly night and day.

Wedding bells' gongs screaming

in her head, begging for fruition.

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Our handsome young lad was making noises,

sounds of another kind, Please Mary, I need ...

When she'd hint of that blissful day he fidgeted,

coughed lowly, and begged her leave.

Worried a little she took her stand.

Devious it might be, invitations to stay increased.

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Oh John, O John, hold me tighter,

I love you so became her consistent whisper.

Whispered softly in his ear.

Night after night, passion abounding,

Oh Johnny, do you love me too?

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It took a measured while but then one night,

his wine-breathed whisper barely sounding,

I love you too, Mary, I love you too.

With wedding thoughts more intense,

she dreamed of that day,

surely coming very soon.

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Months had passed then her thoughts quickly changed.

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She'd have to ask and ask she did.

Veiled at first with feigned humor,

talk about the rabbit dying.

Made no sense to John. Come, come to me,

I'll get you a new one tomorrow.

Johnny, it isn't a real rabbit.  

No, my test said "a happy day is coming."

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Later that night when John was with the guys,

they told him what she had meant.  

Oh damn, O da...  He texted her that night,

gibberish about a fast job change in another town.

I'll text you when I land and

send you some money soon when I can.

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I am sorry. Be seeing you.

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Mary's note they found.

Nothing in it made much sense. 

One line "to John,"

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"Was there one, even one grain of love?"
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- I'm linked with Kerry at the Real Toads, Sunday Mini-Challenge: In Other Words (Link)

- There Kerry picked a couple of novels, I am writing mine in honor of her second selection,

A Grain of Wheat, a novel by Kenyan novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

and again Monday

- with Kerry at the Real Toads, Open Link Monday (Link)