Skeleton in the Closet

A skeleton in the closet
is what I would love to find,
not just some boring character
who lounged around, then died.

 I’d like to find a Knight
who did a dirty deed, or two!
Or a nasty cutthroat pirate
who loved his cockatoo!

 I wouldn’t mind a Highwayman
well known for his derring-do.
A suave, sophisticated ladies man
who made them sob as he bid adieu.

 But frustration is what I get
as the records I try to search,
‘No match’ keeps popping up
and to those words I am averse.

 Ag-labs are difficult to find
as they skip from place to place,
and of that Army Deserter
I simply cannot find a trace.

 I’ll just have to keep on digging
through the family history chests,
till I find those ancestral bones, and,
maybe, some hidden family crests!

 Jackie S Brooks
7 December 2004