THE TRIP

She didn’t want me.
She swore that early on
before she knew what such things meant
she had sworn an oath upon eternity
that she would marry
a man named Mark Milton III.

"Is your name Mark Milton the Third?"
she asked
with a cruel innocence.
It was not
at the time
so she walked away.

The promises of youth
did not mean so much to me
so I searched for her soul mate
she had never met
to know him
and destroy him.

Is it possible that my quest
would bring them together?
That is always the risk of fate
that precisely what you do
to avoid the foretold
is what in the end
brings it about.

So I hunted him
and I failed to find him
and returned to find
my love who didn’t want me
still alone
forlorn
without her man of mystery.

So I changed my name
to better suit her needs.
I became what she wanted
and pray
she never asks
to meet my grandpa.