Jeremy and Loretta(WIP)

[tectak]

They were children, hand in hand;
sister steering brother through new wonderland.
In the sunny, steaming streets near the suburban park
Jeremy and Loretta  played outside until dark.

It was never going to last.
Growing up is gradual but way too fast;
soon sisters run straight on while brothers circle round.
Jeremy and Loretta got known as Lost and Found.

She was eight when momma died.
Papa left when Jeremy had just turned five.
Neither knew what made the sun walk round the sky;
Jeremy and Loretta, the kids that didn't cry.

So they laughed at everyone,
then life's laces, well, it seems  they came undone.
She mixed it with some guy, and he got mad drunk.
Jeremy and Loretta... together, killed the punk.

No one seemed to give a care;
so they lied and said that they were never there.
People said that kids were kids, the guy was dead;
Jeremy and Loretta lay wide awake in bed.

Same old sun came up next day;
TV said that in the night they'd run away.
Loretta, she got picked up by a travelling man.
Jeremy walked like big boys do, he never ran.

They didn't plan to meet up or to keep in touch,
but the paper's said they loved each other very much,
Jeremy and Loretta.

tectak 2015
Thanks to John Prine and Old Crow Medicine Show for the inspiration