An old poem

I used to want to write a novel but then I discovered that I can't really write all that well. Plus, I just don't have the determination to see it through. I found an old poem on my 'puter tonight - so I will self-publish:


TAXI METER

My love is measured
By the ticking meter
Of the taxi cab
Which he has summoned
to take me home.

Colgate flavoured kisses
As his toes freeze
On the cold concrete
Below
Signal the end
Of souls bared, secrets shared, beds shared
While the scent
Of hastily sprayed perfume
Marks another
Chapter of deception.

I want to stay
But obligation
Wrenches me away
As the taxi cab
Delivers me back to reality
But not to Life.

I like the first stanza but the rest is pretty crappy. I wrote it while I was first going out with my now hubby. I used to go to see him in his grotty little flat but would leave to go home late at night in a cab because I was working as a nanny and had to be there when the kids got up in the morning.

So the first stanza is about me but the rest is made up and hence not all that great.

I think I should stick to finding books for people rather than writing them!!