A Time For Us

A TIME FOR US I loved her more than any girl I saw before or since. I wanted us to marry But she was not convinced. She told me we were much too young And, although we might one day, She was off to university Two hundred miles away. There will be a time for us, She promised at the station, As she climbed aboard and left me To three years of frustration. But, at the university, She discovered boys galore; Far more than our village That had only three or four. She met an undergraduate Who swept her off her feet And, on the day she married him, My misery was complete. And so there was no time for us; I’d read the signs all wrong. I don’t watch West Side Story now Because of that haunting song