THE NO-FRILL BEAR

The year was 1980...barely 20...was she..at the  London school hallway is when she heard him giggle with his friends.."Sophia"  is what he called her..he didn't know her name..he said she looked like a Sophia..This boy, so tall, so dark, so handsome...he took her  breath away..and she thought he couldn't be for real...It was that very same year..this man from heaven fell in love with her..with his love and poems..he intoxicated her..before she knew it...she had fallen for him..But she only had one thing in mind...when was she ever gonna get to the land of opportunity...where she'd marry a man of desire..a man of position ..a man who would take care of  her ..like her mama told her...The final day came when she arrived to this land of misery...the land that had eveything written on it's face but love and glory..He followed her...tried to make it easy and smooth for her..told her that love was all that mattered..He begged her to stay..but little did he know that there was a strong current going against him...they pulled her away from him."No",...mama said.."He is not gonna be here for you for ever...these things don't last for ever...you stay here with us...you marry this man within us"...so she did..and the boy gave her the "NO-FRILL BEAR"..before he went back..heartbroken....She could never figure out what that ever so plain Bear  was suppose to mean......Years went by..and she found the NO-FRILL BEAR in her box of old treasues...It was then when she realized the meaning that lied so deep within that ever so plain NO-FRILL BEAR............