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!