The Unspoiled Heart

No more than a chance encounter,
it turned into a prolonged
discussion of a myriad of issues
ripe for small talk among people
whom mere moments before were
perfect strangers suddenly
discovering shared interests. 
Mother and daughter resembling
sisters, arrested in mid-ramble
greeting an elderly pair walking
their own small dog coming
abreast of their three tiny pets. A
divulging of experiences in
friendly chat made until the
young woman claimed herself
prepared to "settle down", and the
elderly man cautioning that she
first find a profession, not become
reliant on "some man", but free and
independent, capable of supporting
herself within or without the
sacred vows of marriage as his
wife of 60 years looking on
astonished, supplemented her
husband's admonishment with a 
beatific smile at the startled young
woman and the parting words that
she aim herself at the urging of
her very own unspoiled heart.