Novel Ideas

A poem just for you!

I wish that I lived in a novel,

I wish that such glamour were mine,

To be young and sweet, with the world at my feet, And a hero who’s simply divine!

What joys we could share – what adventures, As the plot flew us up to cloud nine,

What a glorious treat when our lips got to meet, And our tremulous arms to entwine.

Yet what if my dreams are too reckless? There’s twists in a narrative line –

If it turned bittersweet, or involved cruel deceit, Could I cope with events so malign?

So perhaps I’ll just settle for humdrum,

A life lived by chance, not design,

With my plans in retreat I will firmly repeat, From fiction, I choose to resign! Maggie Ingall.