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Professional Poetic Rivarly Between A Uniform And Scrubs

Unedited Version To The This Is How I Remember It Challenge

By Marc OBrienPublished 5 months ago 3 min read

Sitting here confused

Battered and bruised

Life took an uncharted path

Almighty issued a questionable challenging wrath

On a man named Knight

Gallantly protecting, Ann Gail in life’s fight

A collegiate beauty showing might

Prepared for any plight

Last century, both endured maturing weather

Tickling each other's emotional feather

Love flowing through the air

Flourishing academic campus romantic affair

Proper acceptable dress they did wear

Uniformed nurse

Professional trusting defeating any sickness curse

For him

To win

Suit and tie

And no chance he would ever lie

Immersed in their assigned textbook

Only took

Breaks to cook

Until academic courses were complete

And family friends ever so sweet

Celebrate

Achievement great

After credits towards degree earned

Set sail, encountering real world without a concern

Wedding vows came and went

Weekend trips to video stores made to rent

Unbelievable technology, entered the scene

Decisions based on a scripted character generated screen

Data easily obtained

Nobody really wants to complain

Then one day while grabbing a muffin

Ann Gail, walked out saying nothing

“Are you working the Emergency O R

Or band aiding a pediatric scar?”

Knight inquired from his company incentive car

Whistling a happy eighties tune

Stirring pick me up coffee, using a spoon

“No walking the floors

Pressing buttons, opening new doors”

Knight, he did listen

Instead of morning kissin

Comprehending this laid-back mission

Time went on

Then the reality bomb

Information seemed off

Knight diagnosis, a sarcastic cough

“Are you all right, honey?

Bank account statements say we have money.

Is there something I should fear

About your lackluster cheer?”

“Dear

Please hold my beer

And hear

What I have to say

Okay

You once wore an ensemble tight

And innocently white

Sending a message honest and true

Comforting the fool

Who did something dumb

And you made sure they were welcome

Presenting an attitude, powerful and bright

Shining, the healing spotlight

Now daily costume code required is comfortably colorfully alive

Easily washed and dried

Unlike the formal garment cleaner

Needed to mend hurting screamers

Ordering Plan B’s spa steamer”

Knight did claim

Wiping the sudsy stain

“Correct things are very simple

Now I have time to study surgical removal of a pimple”

Ann Gail face smiled

Still driving Knight wild

“I want you to know how beautiful you were

When researching a cure

But now that I finished my drink

Please reflect and think

About the knowledgeable investment we made together

Forever”

Next morning

Without warning

Ann Gail came downstairs informing

Exhibiting fashionable business attire

Wanting to be hired

For the open executive slot

Committed giving the promo interview, the old University shot

Appearing hot

Under the collar

Ready to holler

She is the one

And her career not done

One more step requests a climb

Hoping the corporation marches their dimes

To afford Knight's Ann Gail

A BS winner who never fails

Only finds herself

A symbol representing good health

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About the Creator

Marc OBrien

Barry University graduate Marc O'Brien has returned to Florida after a 17 year author residency in Las Vegas. He will continue using fiction as a way to distribute information. Books include "The Final Fence: Sophomores In The Saddle"

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