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I have my platinum muse
It is a flighty, windy memory
Of a memorable, miserable encounter
With someone that reminded me...

I have not even fooled myself
Into believing something so weak
As the crippled, dying cupid
That is love at first sight.

The woman I am marrying,
Wasn't loved at first glance
She was a shallow puddle of mud
At my eyes first introduction.

Though, as I splashed in the mud
I was swept off my feet
Back into the primal wilderness
Of a child at play.

Caila makes me truly happy
Like a young boy
Tenderizing his stomping ground
After a heavy spring rain.

When the mud dried
I knew it was the remains
Of a memory when I was a child
Of being happier than ever.

What rose from those sterile ashes
Was a woman, a beautiful woman
She has flecks of gold in her veins
Eyes that emeralds envy

She didn't come and go,
Like the coy but beautiful Emma
Emma is only comparable
To a whiff of a nostalgic scent

Caila is my golden totem
Every moment we spend
Is frozen in time
Comatose, in its prime

Caila is my one true love
When that is no longer a fact
I will have forgotten about Emma
Completely, but sweetly.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2010



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Date: 7/25/2016 1:56:00 AM
tyler, enjoyed reading your poem today. ,Thank you for sharing your words. Hope to see you post again.... *SKAT*
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Date: 8/1/2010 7:44:00 PM
Welcome to poetry soup! The light is always on here. Check out some of my works if you have the time. I would like a fresh victim. I mean opinion. ;)
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Date: 7/30/2010 11:24:00 AM
You have captured her beauty
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