Some Special Tune

"On the day that you were born, the angels got together and decided to create a dream come true. So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of gold and starlight in your eyes of blue." From the Carpenters' "Close to You" How I wish I had some special tune recalling romance underneath the moon for one specific moment in my life - but even when I first became a wife, no song was there for my spouse and me. I think and I think. What song might there be? One song there was a long long time ago coming to my mind; it’s lyrics I know by heart! Its meaning held me in its thrall. Most words of songs I barely can recall! The song, a big hit, made me kind of blue. A song for dreamers – it was “Close to You.” So wistful is the woman we hear long to be close to her dream man. It’s a song a day dreamer just like myself would play again and then again back in “the day.” Sweet tinge of angst Karen Carpenter brought to lyrics of the dream of love she sought. That singer died young, but she well knew of the type of young man most young women love - “A dream come true” with “hair of gold” and “eyes of blue” by angels made – a special prize! There was a boy for whom I used to pine like in the lyrics of the song – divine! I’d put my record on and I would hear the line “why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near?” Then I would sigh - my teenaged heart so pained that I could cry. No matter what, my dream boy would ignore the girl I was . . . and would be evermore! Aug 4, 2020 for Beth Evans' Same Old Song Poetry Contest