"How I met My Husband"
This is the story of a boy
Who Was Homeless
And Fully Grown Up, too
You See GRownups need Homes, too
He needed to be adopted
he was an orphan
his mother had recently died of cancer
whom he loved so dearly
and missed so much, that
twas a wonder he survived her death himself.
He was homeless
and it didn't bother him, to be homeless
it was just on those cold nights
he had gone to college for a four year
paramedic degree but been
unable to graduate, and therefore
could find no work, no job.
in fact when i met him he was living at
a paramedic rescue station for ambulances
he had been living there for about a year
by the time i met him
he slept on a couch
it didn't have a bed, it was just a couch
and he watched tvday after day went by
the paramedic station wouldn't give him a job but
they let him stay there as a home and he slep
on a sofa he bathed there and dressed there
when i met him
he was the most beautiful boy
that i had ever met in my life.
He took me to his paramedic station
and the first thing he said was, "You've Got
To Meet
My Dad!" and he took me to a photograph
on an empty refirerator
a page size, very old photograph
of his father before he had died
his father had died when he was three
years old, hit by a drunk driver.
I said, "So your father's not alive now?"
"No,he died when i was a baby.I'm an Orhpan,"
he explained.  Then he asked me
where would i like to go to eat
and he said "Oh!  Oh! I Know the perfect
place!  It's a mexican buffet in downtown
ill take you there and we can eat!
So we went in his car.  I ordered a vegetable
quesadilla, and it the best one i ever had, because
i was in love.  We sat side by side in this
enormous booth against a window and i, i think
i held his hand
for the first time.  (i have to stop here because
I'm starting to cry...)