Gone Shopping

I’m sitting here in the morning glow

Of the early winter sun,

Staring at the picture of you

And wondering what I’ve done,

You left to go on a shopping trip

In the middle of the week,

You said that you’d be an hour away

Was the last I heard you speak.

I’m used to you never turning up

So I knew I’d have to wait,

I’ve often taken a chair out there

To sit by the garden gate,

The sun went down and the Moon came up

There was still no sign of you,

And when I crawled upstairs I saw

That the bed was empty too.

I wondered what you were shopping for

As it’s true, you never tell,

You might be looking for pitchforks from

The seventh circle of hell,

You come back home with the strangest things

Like a bag of knitted straw,

And once with a dozen rubber rings

What did you want them for?

A day went by and I rang around,

Caught up with your friend Denise,

Checked with the local hospital,

With the Firemen and the Police,

But nobody knew just where you were

Or at least, they wouldn’t say,

Constable Gurk suppressed a smirk

Said you might have run away.

Somebody said that you’d passed them by

In a number fourteen bus,

Another one said, they don’t know why,

You were seen with Uncle Gus.

I knew all along that must be wrong

Though I don’t know why they lied,

They must have been seeing things, it’s been

A year since my Uncle died.

So now I’m left with a mystery

It’s already been a week,

I’ve been so alone, all on my own

I’m forgetting how to speak.

I’d never have thought you’d want to leave

I thought that our love was true,

I’ve just had a call, you’d not believe,

They found you, locked in the Zoo.

David Lewis Paget

Reviews

[Barbz]

There is a certain irony that held me as I read this poem. It spoke to me as I considered the task of ridding one of their odd items they have collected thru the years, and why and when! Ridding ones self of these oddities makes one feel they'd have been better off locked in a zoo! Whatz Love got to do with it........Maybe it's just me!! Barbz

[TPK Stories]

Interesting read, as always.

[Kat]

quite a poem, with both humor and pathos intermingled. It made me smile! Great rhyming too.

[SM Davis]

Clever! I got caught up on the rubber rings for a moment and thought... circus.. then ferret then crazy lover.. great twist right around like a record baby.. back to the animals in the zoo. Loved it.

[Stacy Purvis]

Ha! Oh you silly goose! Clever....
A very enjoyable read, indeed!