Love Poem: A Length of Rope
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Written by: Line Gauthier

A Length of Rope

Remembering back
When I was younger
back in a previous life
when I enjoyed playing the game

Went out with my share of beaus
More than my share some would say

Foolish and naïve yes
But I always kept an ace up by sleeve

I always gave the guy a chance
In the form of a length of rope 
Enough to hang himself
Should he so choose…
Sometimes it stung
But I was no fool

At the ripe old age of fifty
I married the first man
Who wanted nothing to do
With the rope
And that was game over



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on July 28, 2018