The Nicest Person

On tuesdays after she had been out shopping she pushed her
trolley home along the street
And she would say good day to everybody the friendliest

person you could wish to meet
Her gray hair well combed always looked so tidy and she

always dressed well and always

looked so neat
And she looked well for one in her mid seventies with a

perfect set of her own clean

white teeth.

Old joan she told me all about melinda of how about an easy

life she never knew
Her husband died when their two daughters were schoolkids

and melinda herself only

thirty two
But she did cleaning jobs to raise her daughters the hardest

working person in the town
She rose at dawn for to cook for them their breakfast and

she had little time for sitting

down.

Before herself she always put her children and they always

looked so well dressed and well

fed
And she for them was such a great role model melinda by

good example always led
Her daughter married well and gave her grandkids and though

from her they lived long miles

away
They always kept in touch with their dear mother and rang

her often every second day.

Melinda had not been seen for a few days and one of her

neighbours thought he would do

the right thing
He could see the light still switched on in her lounge room

and he felt he ought to give

the cops a ring
The police came and found melinda's body and it had the

strong stench of death and

decay
In her lounge room she had disturbed a burglar her dried

blood on the carpet where she

lay.

She won't be seen again on tuesday mornings pushing her

shopping trolley home along

the street
And she will be sadly missed by all who knew her the nicest

person one could wish to meet
She never knew an easy life melinda and of others she only

had good to say
And surely she deserved a better ending she did not deserve

to die in such a way..