Binki the Lonely Pig

I've been sitting brokenhearted, Maggie suddenly departed
Left me here, without a tear or kiss goodbye.
I'm staring at my pen walls and waiting as the rain falls,
For the sound of her return.  She left me.  Why?

I wonder will she stay long or if something could have gone wrong
To prevent her rushing back home, here to me?
Time is long with worry and I wish that it would hurry
By, cause I'm a lonely pig in agony.

Just a minute!  What do I hear?  Is it her?  Can she be near?
All of this has just happened in a flash.
I thought that she had left me, and I was so bereft, see?
When in fact she was just taking out the trash!

copyright Margaret Timms 1998