A Story Called Life

Here is a story about two souls,

Colliding in time with no complete control.

 Jack was a bartender, loved his beer,

Mary was a lonely girl searchin’ for cheer.

She slid in a chair down at Ed’s Bar,

Asked for a whiskey and bud, just to start.

Jack gave a smile, said “This one’s on me”,

She smiled as she put down that old Tennessee.

He asked why a girl like her was there,

“You should be off with somebody somewhere.

How come a beautiful girl like you,

Looks like she doesn’t know what to do?”

 Mary looked up and started to cry,

Then she calmed herself down and looked in Jacks eyes.

“Today I woke up cold and alone,

Another day gone by that I’m on my own.

 Guess no one sees me for who I am,

I don’t think any of them even can.

 I realized I have things I don’t need,

And cant seem to find what I’ve seen in my dreams.”

 She picked up her Bud and put it down,

Gave a loud burp and said “Another round…”

 Jack poured her drinks and said “I’m sorry, Dear,

Tell me all about it and I’ll buy the beer.”

 They sat at the bar all of the night,

Talking about darkness and talking about light.

How time has a way of kicking yer ass,

How Love tends to come slow and leave pretty fast.

Next thing they knew the Moon was the Sun,  

And Mary was waking up next to someone.

She thought they had been there all of her life,

For this was the first time she felt so alive.

They stayed together the rest of the day,

And somehow they managed to drift away.

Neither of them paid the world any mind,

For all of the day was just spent lost in time.

Mary and Jack became one through the years,

And being alone was not something they feared.

Mary said “Jack, I got something to say…”

And Jack gave a grin, said “Don’t keep me at bay!

Cause I have something to say to you,

So you tell me first and then I will tell, Too.”

She said “There’s something inside of me,

A sign that our Love was made so tenderly.

I feel it growing each day that goes by,

And soon you and I will look love in the eyes.

 I hope it’s a boy who’s just like you,

Who tells me that He loves me and all that I do.

”That’s the first time Mary saw Jack cry,

He fell to his knee and he looked to the sky.

He looked back at her and gave a grin,

Said “Baby, you’re stuck so far under my skin.

There’s all of these things you do and say,

I don’t know what to call it, but I Love the way:

The way you come close to me at night,

The way you make everything seem all right.

The way you kiss me so tenderly,

The way you do it slow so the world can see.

The way you smile when you catch my stare,

The way I fell and wasn’t even aware.

You ARE the only thing I need in life,

Mary, wont you tell me if you’d be my wife?”

“Yes. YES! A Thousand Times I Will,

Even if we part, sweet Love, I’ll Love you still."

 

Nine months later came a little girl,

Eyes blue as the sky, a smile that spun the world.

Jack cried.

He looked into those baby eyes and He just cried.

But with such a happiness came woe,

After hemorrhaging, his Mary had to go.

He begged the God he didn’t like,

To spare his Mary and, instead, take HIS life...

He cried all alone there on the floor,

 Everything he came to Love now was no more.

He looked at his daughter and he said:

“Looks like its just you and me from here,

Us against the world, while all just disappears…

Yer all I’ve got that’s a part of her,

And through every troubled time we will endure.”

Now eighteen years have come and then gone,

Baby’s grown up and Jack still holds on.

He’s watching his girl walk up on the stage,

The principle just read the name Haley May.

She walked up to the microphone stand,

Unfolded a paper she had in her hand,

And she said:

 

“Over the years I’ve learned many things,

 Daddy, he taught me to Love and to Dream.

 People taught me how to read and write,

To change thoughts into words with a little insight.

I’ve had my fare share of Love and Loss,

I learned time was nothing but Life’s bitter cost.

Never got to see Mama smile,

Never felt her Love, even for a while.

But I know that she is here today,

I can feel her, even though she’s far away.

So I say to mom, just this one time:

It’s you that kept this goal inside my mind.

Sometimes all I’d want was just to hide,

So I’d close my eyes and drift away inside.

And I saw you when I closed my eyes,

You helped calm me down when I wanted to cry.

I’m here today cause of Dad and You,

You’ve both made me proud, so you should feel it, too.

 Here I stand today with my head high,

Diving into life knowing your love is on my side."

 

That night Jack and Haley watched a video,

Mary, saying how she’d love her family so.

“Nothing in this life is a sure thing,

But I’m sure I found what I saw in my dreams.

My Jack, he loves me more every day,

I hope we have a boy who will be the same.

 It seems so strange when I reminisce,

Never thought my life would ever be like this.

Then I met this man when I had no one,

Now we’re to be married after Baby comes.

I’ve wanted family all my life,

But there was nobody there to cut my strife.

Now, here’s my man, Baby’s on the way,

I’m still thinking about what I’m gonna say.

First thing I will do is give a kiss,

Then what I will say will go something like this:

Hey, it’s nice to meet you finally.

 Yer Dad and I have been waiting patiently.

You are just like what I dreamed of you,

Guess the really good ones sometimes DO come true."

 

 

Haley cried, but smiled just the same,

Then when Jack saw her, faster his teardrops came.

He said:

“She wanted a boy who’d be just like me,

Then gave me a girl that turned out just like she.

Aint it funny how some things turn out?

Life is ever something we know nothing about.

I thank the Stars for you, Haley May,

You’ll always be the one who makes this sorrow fade.

I Love you more than you’ll ever know,

Without you I would be completely alone."

 

Next morning Haley went to wake Jack,

But, to her dismay, he didn’t answer back.

He drifted off somewhere in the night,

Now Haley knows the Darkness and she knows the Light.

She now knows how time can kick yer ass,

How things tend to come slow and leave pretty fast.

A story such as this is called Life,

In it you’ll find Love and, also, you’ll find Strife