Then there’s the attire. You spend hours checking yourself out in the mirror, the drool across the floor, ******* of your dress and the ******* smothered in lace.
Step back, look at that face. The realisation seeping in like blood into a bandage that you are almost ready. A cast of a hundred or so seen-once-in-two-years with eyes on your eyes, the cold finger ringless for just a few seconds more.
Here it is then, the moment when you settle down as a child clambering into bed for a parent-read tale. You have chosen this man with this face and these hands and he will do. The search cannot be continued.
In one month, an argument. In one year, a child after the umpteenth round of relatives' questions. The story writes itself and oh how plain it seems, the predictability like gone-off milk makes you want to gag. But, you say, it’s how it goes. How it goes.
The woman asks if it’s the one. You’re flummoxed for a second - the dress or the man? Yes, you reply. I think so.
Written: December 2017. Explanation: A poem written in my own time. Feedback welcome. A link to my Facebook writing page can be found on my HP home page. NOTE: Many of my older pieces will be removed from HP at some point in the future.