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a kid in love     in deep adoration-
oh   the worship    the longing affection
I breathed his name

writing it in my notebook   a thousand times
david    dave    dave   mrs  david . . . 

love  forever and ever and ever

I kissed him with passion     in my mind and dreams
a girl of fourteen    a geek with bottle glasses
with her nose in a book

I even wrote a love note    a fatal letter
that winged itself to nowhere
        after all he was a quarterback

a noble god    so regal    on his throne
charging down the football field
   like he was at war    rockets and bombs bursting
the crowd cheering their champion

in class he looked with a stare    at his blank notes
on tests    the guy grimaced and groaned
most popular boy in school    with golden hair
the body of a man        
        the brain of a child      he was my everything

I wanted to have his children    I was smitten
     enchanted
        enthralled
            oh it was love

sadly      he did not know my name
did not even look at me           I was nothing in his
world           I hung my head like a dying flower
he did not see         the ugly duckling in love 

one time I congratulated him
he looked at me like I was speaking
      in an alien tongue
the truth hurt deeply      my heart bled
 with       a sea of tears     scars
are the road map to the soul      I have learned

the years rolled on but I never forgot       david
years withered                      like leaves of decay
my heart drowning       in memories

I left the ugly duckling far behind    and the quarterback
and a flower grew
     life rumbled on since those high school days

then      one bright sunny day            not long ago  
     on a city street
I was walking            my hair blowing in the wind
  like a flowing river streaming      down my shoulders
my sundress pressed to my curves     construction workers
whistled and blew kisses     
       clouds like ice cream castles floated in the sky
and there he was -

walking towards me   my long ago love    from a far off place
I knew it was him    the smile    the easy going walk
               the confidence     the godly air
     and I was taken back to the shy little girl
I passed by saying nothing    nothing     nothing

but he paused      I wonder did he know
       I continued on       smiling and laughing to myself
the wheels of justice        turn slowly
because      he has lost all his golden hair
    and was that a donut underneath his shirt -

and the drums of time have ceased to play
                                  on this love of long ago


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July 22, 2015


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