Wish I Knew You When

After all these years, I fear, our time was far too brief; for all the laughing, loving, shedding of tears, our time together slipped away like a thief. Wish I knew you when life was simple when children played games of hide and seek and the only worries were of teenage pimples while love was but a gentle kiss upon the cheek. Wish I knew you when they called for that first dance with two left feet misstepped on the high school floor casting smiles to catch your eye with every advance hoping you would smile and ask for more. Wish I knew you when flowers first bloomed in spring and at your door I'd softly knock ready to give you every piece of my heart strings to begin our time together on the clock. Wish I knew you when the world turned upside down we could be hand in hand against it's threats together we'd paint the town with nothing to separate our duet. Wish I knew you when I was all hope and dreams bold and steady in the passage of time bound by love weathering all rivers and streams that ebbed and flowed with love sublime. After all these years, our time was brief; laughing, loving, shedding tears slipped away, a thief.