Is it love that makes the world go round?
For some I’m sure that’s true
But many an earthling suffers in love
Alone and feeling blue.
I’ll tell you, now, about a girl called Kate
So bonny and bright and gay
Kind and honest and quick to laugh
She dreamt to marry one day.
Kate fell in love with handsome Jim
So tall, so fit, so strong
She hoped that she would marry him
His last words were,“So long”.
Kate thought that she would die of grief
Her heart was wounded so
She sobbed all night ’til morning light
Such misery and woe.
This carried on for many a year
Until her friend Jim wed,
He clearly thought no more of Kate
With another in his bed.
Kate could not work, she could not play
Her life was ripped apart
She knew that she must find a cure
To mend a broken heart.
She sought a seer for advice
To free Jim from her mind
“Just find another man, my dear”
They’re not so hard to find.
And so, poor Kate she looked around
Her eyes soon lit on Jack
A crazy dark and handsome bloke
She smiled, he smiled back.
Love blossomed like a sweet red rose
Her heart consumed with fire
Until he jilted her one day
It seemed he was a liar.
Again poor Kate was all forlorn
And wept through night and day
If she would ever find true love
She’d need a better way.
This time she saw an alchemist
A pill he offered her
“Take this, and you will find a man
Your heart will sing and purr.”
Quite true, cool Sam came into view
He set her heart aflame
She knew that he would be the one
She longed to take his name.
But soon, cool Sam found someone new
And they both left the town
Once more poor Kate was all alone
Cool Sam had let her down.
Kate wept, she wailed, bereft of hope
Then decided to enlist
The help she sought could only come
From a nuclear physicist.
The first appointment she could get
Was far away on Mars
She quickly booked herself a seat
To travel to the stars.
The spaceship flight was strange for Kate
A robot served her tea
’Twas crazy floating in the air
In zero gravity
The brainy nuclear physicist,
Jane, wanted to find fame
She had her own laboratory
Where she could make her name.
A list of special tasks Jane drew
To make the world take heed
An app to talk to animals
Was clearly in the lead.
She’d translated all the doggy sounds
Also the cat’s meow
A horse’s whinny was almost done
The next would be the cow.
Jane knew that it would take some time
Ere all the beasts were seen
The focus of her work was strong
The animal talking queen.
When Kate turned up for her consult
Her distress was plain to see
So Jane decided she must help
Prepared to waive her fee.
No one should have to suffer so
Thus kindly Jane was keen
To concentrate on making now
A heartbreak healing machine.
An achy breaky heart sure hurts
It’s not just in the mind
Prescribing Tylenol won’t work
A cure is hard to find.
Jane started with a pace maker
Inserted in Kate’s chest
It monitored her heartbeats
When running and at rest.
Jane modified the pace maker
To detect the broken heart
Its rhythm was disjointed
That was the easy part.
To put it back together now
Jane needed to discover
Would sutures or dissolving glue
Help Kate forget her lovers?
Although Jane tried a hundred times
The heart she could not mend
It soon was obvious to her
For help she’d have to send.
Alas, on Mars, physicists were few
On no one could she call
But then brave Kate, she volunteered
Said she’d pick up the ball
Now Kate had had no training
Her learning curve was steep
But she was keen and diligent
Long hours did she keep.
At times their work looked promising
Both certain of success
And then a problem would arise
To failure they’d confess.
But Jane and Kate were hardy souls
Give up they never would
They finally cracked the jackpot
A heart-healing machine that could
And so, Kate’s heart was whole again
The reason to be seen
Had hard work fixed her broken heart
Or the heartbreak healing machine?
What happened was... 