THE SURPRISE!!
The surprise!! Many times I had been alone, But never felt so lonely before, That too, on my twenty-first birthday, A day I had been dreaming of, since yore, My family was not in town, None of my friends had wished me at midnight, The clock ticked two, and I thought, It’s better to catch some sleep light, My eyes had barely closed, When I heard a knock on the door, I smiled, I wished, I prayed, For a surprise in store, I rushed madly to open it, Only to find no one outside, Crestfallen, I felt, and shattered too, But just when I was about to go inside, My eyes noticed a note lying, It said, come to the garden a block away, I put on my slippers and ran, My heart was leaping, in joy it did sway, I had been waiting for a surprise, And now my excitement grew tenfold, It was pitch dark; I saw a few shadows in the garden, One grabbed me, other gagged me and I was blindfold, I was put in the car, and none spoke a word, And that’s when I started wondering, I wasn’t quite sure they we...