Kevin Michael Bloor

Dead Girl

I waited for her twenty years
For twenty years and more
Then someone said that she was dead
That I should wait no more

I waited though for ten years more
For ten years more did wait
Till postman pushed, one rainy day,
In haste, my garden gate

He fed my hungry letterbox
A letter that I read
Writ by the hand of girl I loved
Who someone said was dead

She\'d wrote to share this sober truth: 
THAT GIRL indeed was dead,
But wondered if I minded much
An older one instead!