The Twins
The Twins
Two boys that mother sweet Sophia
Conceived one day
She couldn't deny
Were two peas in a pod
Exactly the same
But whence they grew up
One was named Shame and tother Scandal
Like a Turkey and an Orangutan
She could tell apart
One pea from another
For Shame was built far less mighty
And like a tall necked Turkey
His head was always in air
Unless it buried of course in the mud
As his name spelt Shame
For no cause of his nature but by birth name
To be addressed "'Twas a shame"
Seemed so casual and routine
Among folks, family and peers
Whilst Scandal was tall and strong
Indeed a reckless fellaw
Like an orang-utan his name
Spelt for trouble
And cause for anxiety for his mother Sweet Sophia
His brains didn't match his brawn
And wherever he went
There was Scandal
That his name spelled
Woe Begone! Matched his looks of an orang-utan!
Now it gave their mother
Sweet Sophia
Cause to fret and worry
When she thought all her troubles were over
Till her sons decided to marry
Why Scandal was so flaming hot
The entire neighbourhood loved to talk
How big, muscular and strong
His arms could lift even a dame
Who weighed a hundred and ninety-nine pounds
But his jaws and brains
Didn't match to compete with his brawn
And often Alack-A-Daisical! Would complain
He wished a lighter
To match his scented Mary Long cigarettes
The longest ones
Instead of a woman who would make
Cause for much more scandal
Than outweigh his brawns with muscle
Whilst Shame the old turkey buzzard
Would bow low his head
As if shame on him again
He believed in love and not arranged marriages
And vowed he would marry Miss Peppermint
And not Miss Candy
Haute v/s Savvy!
Whether by limb, hair and fair colour
Both the twin brothers deemed they made a mess
For both loved two sisters
One 'twas love at first sight
And one arranged at the lift of brawn and muscle
Instead drop of a hat
For the sisters Candy and Peppermint
Were twins to the core
So similar
All peaches, cream and strawberry
They hardly could distinguish one from the other
Whether 'twas Coy Peppermint or Sweet Candy!
Romancing the rocks, bird or monkey
Would determine the fate of the twin brothers in vain
Shame wooed Peppermint
With scented flowers, candies
And candle-lit rendezvous
Whilst Scandal serenaded Candy
With guitar, plectrum and peppermints
One deemed love under the stars
And one by a strange arrangement
Of comets with tails and sparklers
Scandal dismissed love would be too mushy
And sentimental for his taste buds
Though falling in love
Twain brothers and demure maidens
Seemed to be almost the same by 'Irony of Fate'
Shame took Peppermint
For walks under an umbrella
Whilst Scandal drove Candy
In an old Shandrydan
That tottered, tootled and billowed
Dust, horn and smoke
Like an old gallivanter horse around the busy neighbourhood
Till Shame complained to Scandal
Arranged meetings were seldom as good as
Love's short notice
A romance under the starry night and moon
Occasional showers of rain drizzles and a glass
Of shandy
Anon the long stroll for a cheery toast in a local pub!
Whilst Scandal argued arranged hook-ups in an
Old Shandrydan
Petering away like a kewpie pewter
Were far better than a luxurious Rolls-Royce
And walking in the rain under an umbrella
'Would be a shame
And definitely not the talk of the town
Till court deemed law
Would have a better hold at their grouses
For both twin brothers
At last decided to leave their spouses
Defined twin brothers to twin marriages
An unholy sacrilege
A matchless pain instead of a matchless match
Made in Heaven
Called shame or scandal
For both Shame and Scandal
Had married one and the other twin sisters
Who looked unmistakably the same
Because sometimes a bit of something too sweet
Seems too cloying instead of refreshing
All sweet things come to an abrupt end!
And just like sugar cane and stables
Candy and Peppermints!
The turkey and orang-utan
Had enough of their strange tryst
By Jinx!
Didn't know till date which one they married
And which one they divorced
Wasn't it a shame and a scandal!