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A happy accident

A happy accident

Alone. Alone always alone
The warmth of love I’d never known.
Conceived upon a one night stand
and then abandoned out of hand.

Nobody ever wanted me.
It seemed I was condemned to be
unloved unwanted and alone
My heart grew cold and turned to stone.

I could not love, no one showed me
affection: I could not see
that to receive I had to give.
And so I lived in misery.

I grew up in an orphanage
until I had attained the age.
When they considered I should be.
Grown up enough to be set free.

Not their responsibility
and that is how I came to be.
A dweller in bed sitter land.
Nobody seemed to understand.

Just how lonely life can be
I knew that no one cared for me.
I thought that no one ever would
nor could I see why they should.

Until one day I found a friend
my loneliness was at an end.
She was an orphan just like me
and had endured the misery.

Of feeling that she was alone
unwanted too by anyone.
I needed her she needed me
We learned together we could be.

Good friends who earned each others trust
and very slowly to adjust.
Adopt a different point of view
and realise it was not true.

That we were not unlovable
and that we were quite capable
of giving and receiving love
A treasure which we rate above.

All of the trapping of success
To suffer no more loneliness
To love and be loved in return
A lesson that we had to learn.

Which banished all our misery.
Now we are married happily.
And have two children of our own
Deep love has from a friendship grown.

11-Oct-08

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poem by Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg
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