ShellyBean Stanowski - Lilac Love

The ride seemed longer than usual tonight.
Blessed Friday!
She could hardly wait to get home.
All she could think about was her lilacs today,
at work, her glorious lilacs.
She had noticed that her lilac bushes
were finally blooming this morning,
but in her haste, grabbing a kiss
from her husband and a pop-tart,
she had no time to even enjoy a sniff
of their delicious fragrance.

Frantically pulling in the driveway
she pushes open the car door,
almost tripping on a rock as she runs
to the side of their brick house,
where she had nurtured her darling lilacs
all these years.
Lovely visions of white, lavender and wine ones,
filling her mind's eye, their little perfumed heads
waiting for her presence......

They're gone! ! !
Every last blessed bloom was gone! !
How could this be?
Oh, not the Johnson's kids again!
I'll kill them all for sure this time!
It had to be them, she was remembering
how those three brats had 'helped'
themselves to her climbing roses last summer.
She had made it thru the winter with the hopes
of seeing her innocent flowers.
Just wait 'til I get in the house