On that fateful day
at the doctor’s
with a cold

She sat alone
(and ring-less!)
across the room

I left with a churning heart
the doctor couldn’t cure

Only her love

would soothe
and calm
my racing heart

 

 

 

 

Second draft (26 May 2016). Inspired by a high school friend’s account of how she met her husband through a chance encounter in a doctor’s waiting room.