I have to agree that the spacing problem here does suck, especially with a long poem like mine. I hope what I did here gives you less of a headache while reading.
Anyway, this is pretty much AU. It was inspired by the idea that Peter and Olivia were "trouble makers" in their youth. The idea that couldve been most likely juvenile deliquents seemed just too "cute"? LOL that's my crazy muse for ya.
And oh yes, I'm a total rhyming junkie because I love the challenge of trying to rhyme things.
Genre: AU Poem
Characters: Peter, Olivia
Disclaimer: I dont own these characters
Chain-Linked Fence
Daddy went nuts,
And got locked away.
At least that's what
His mother did say.
*
Thirteen, confused,
And now all alone,
He pretty much vowed
To make anything his own.
*
School got boring,
And he got depressed.
Whatever he did next
Could not be repressed.
*
It's starts with a few break-ins
Just to prove his stance,
Knowing all too well
There would be no second chance.
*
The punishment was six months
To spend in Juvie Hall,
And slapped with being labeled
As "an example for all".
*
But he didn't worry.
His smarts would get him by,
Until the fateful day
He would be out again to "fly".
*
Classes were still boring
P.E. was still tough
Life in the young slammer
Wasn't different all that much.
*
The other boys were rough,
But little did they knew
That he could endure them all
With his extremely high I.Q..
*
Same for the girls on the other side
Of that chain-linked fence,
The one that was going
To change his life ever since.
*
Sometimes he and his male peers
Would have to walk by
Leering and whistling at the bad girls
Who were far from shy.
*
The "ladies" were intimidating,
Vicious, and most femininly stout,
Except for one young girl
Who had really stood out.
*
She was cold and emotionless
And skinny at most,
But cute enough for him
To smile at her with boast.
*
And that's when it happened
Something he thought he'd never see here
She smiled back at him a smile
That made his guts feel very queer.
*
It had been the most beautiful smile
He had ever seen,
And proof that this girl in particular
Couldn't possibly be that mean.
*
She kept her smile
Even as she turn around
Walking away with her long blonde
Ponytail, bobbing up and down.
*
Now he knew that being a juvie
Wasn't going to suck
With cute girls on the other side,
And persistence and luck.
*
Time would pass slowly
And with great anticipation,
He waits to walk by the fence
That gave him an amazing sensation.
*
Of course she was right there waiting.
As if of great coincidence.
With her smile, bringing happiness
Into his life ever since.
*
They had to be 10 feet away
To avoid getting in trouble.
Yet every moment her saw her
His closeness to her seemed to have doubled.
*
Neither could they even
Exchange a word or two,
But they both knew that exchanging
A few smiles would do...
*
...And it got them through.
*
Now he was shocked to learn
His last day there had arrived,
And in so little time
He had matured much and thrived.
*
He would walk by the fence
Just for one last try
Wishing not, but knowing
He would have to say goodbye.
*
But he started to freak
When he didn't see her there.
His seconds away from freedom
Almost forgotten without care.
*
To think he had strongly considered
More time inside the fence
Just to see once more
The girl who would be on his mind ever since.
*
He lost out this one knowing
His needed his freedom more.
Though he never did look up
To what the future had in store.
*
Now he regretted asking nothing:
Her name, her crime, or her story,
Just for something to remember
And recall her in all her glory.
*
But least he would have that smile
And even that made some sense
Knowing that might get him through this life
Ever since.