Truest Love

I saw true love today

Not on a movie screen -

No passion clogging reason,

No clinging to be seen.

 

 I saw true love today,

Walk through a waiting room

Where I was sitting by myself,

Disguise it did assume …

 

An older man, an ugly man

Tall figure worn and bent;

No dashing prince with golden crown

To beauty’s side was sent.

 

A woman who was fat and grey,

No fairy princess she!

Moved by the side of that old man -

She wasn’t much too see.

 

And yet they caught my notice,

The quaint and ancient pair.

They took my full attention

Though they were unaware.

 

For as they lingered by the door

He held her coat for her.

And then he went and fetched the car -

The ice made her footing unsure -

 

And when he brought the car around

For her, the door he gained

And placed a step before it

That her body not be strained.

 

They drove away that morning

And though they could not know

They left me with a picture of how true love should go.

 

I saw that day no handsome prince;

No princesses were seen

But in the realm of Truest Love

I saw the King and Queen.

~ Mary Beth Havckett