All In All Poem by David McLansky

All in all,
Not a bad life
Brief Ectasy
Twixt long bouts
Of strife;
A lack of guidance
Amid a long education
Wisdom my goal
Weekly my desperation;
The search for true love
My daily obsession,
Poor choices made
in a world of expectation;
And then my life near the end
you arrived at my door,
My best true new friend
Your husband didn't want
You no more;
;
So in the end
At the last we discovered
A true love profound
Deep under the covers
You lost a hundred pounds,
You needn't have bothered