Mrs. Brightening

Back when I was growing up In a city on the east coast Although living wasn't easy From life we tried to get the most Not too far down the street There lived a widow Mrs. Brightening To all us teenage boys on the block We all found her so enlightening We'd always see her on the street With clothes that clung so tight She's smile as us boys walked by They say she wore less clothes at night Well, some people said that Mrs. Brightening Had a touch that was like lightening Most of the men in the neighborhood Said, she'd get you hooked and that was frightening The wife's would all get jealous When their husbands looked her way It seems this would cause arguments Nearly every single day Now, Mrs. Brightening didn't care What any other woman thought She didn't listen to what they had to say In fact, she would always cut them off As far as she was concerned It had nothing to do with her She said, that she could not control The way other people were Just because their husbands Would turn their eyes her way She said, she couldn't help it If they like to watch her hips sway Then a strange thing happened That remains a mystery to this day It seems that Mrs. Brightening Seems to have vanished or gone away No one knows what happened Most don't really care The wife's are all elated That she is no longer there Was there foul play involved Many people thought maybe Or, were the whispered rumors true That she was having a married man's baby Every so often someone will ask What ever became of Mrs. Brightening No one responds with a word at all But some would love to be enlightened 12-19-18/RjH