A Stranger’s Kiss

Love no stranger
Kiss no stranger
For a stranger’s kiss
May prove amiss.
A lonesome doveAvid for love
Strove to entrap someone
Despaired, as she found none!

Proud of her beauty vain
Her net she spreads for every swain
Approached a shepherd on the field
Who to her courtship would certainly yield!

Young miss Mary
While making merry
Kissed a stranger
and invited danger!

Developed high fever
Her throat sore
Her tonsils, painful angry- red
With extreme fatigue, she was in bed

Petechiae on her palate soft
Her blood test positive: ’Monospot’
With doctor’s drug she developed rash,
He thrashed her complaint as ‘simply trash.’

Her painful, enlarged spleen and liver
Baffled her doctor as they were markedly tender!
The diagnosis of her malady her doctor could not ‘spot,’
But pathological tests I am sure can spot!!

(Note: Mary is an imaginary name. Any resemblance to any person is purely coincidental.)