"TED"

TED

He fixed a cup of coffee
Sat down to read awhile
Fell asleep and was found
Wearing just a smile.
The note he had left behind
Said "sorry that I'm dead"
And just like that, he was gone
My grampa; known as Ted.

Now Ted had been a looker
Had been wed four times
Gone through tons of money
But died without a dime.
At the age of ninety-nine
He chose to end his life
And the only one he told
Was his lovely wife.

She sat just across from him
And waited for the hearse
Knowing that when it arrived
That's when she'd feel the worse.
Ted chose to die on Christmas
December twenty-fifth
In his note, he joked around:
"You can have my gifts."

He knew his days were numbered
The Doctors told him so
He bathed and wrote the note
Then it was time to go.
Soon there was a funeral
The family came in black
They all had been told
He'd had a heart attack.

The cemetery's cold and old
And Grampa's stone is new
"Ted" is all it says on it
No-one has a clue:
At the age of ninety-nine
He left his fortune to
A homeless shelter for lost dogs
Who rescued kittens too.

Twelve million dollars, all he had
And with his wife's blessing
He took a final soak and shave
Never bothered with the dressing.
Some say Gramp was an old fool
That his wife was crazy too
But not the animals who now reside
In the "NEW YORK TEDDY ZOO".