'you Did Make Me Love You'

I was twenty, and you were nineteen that day along the mall When I heard a guitar from deep inside that round auditorium hall Up on stage with legends Son House, Muddy, Johnny Winter too A red haired, freckle faced, blue eyed girl commenced to sing the blues You started with an apology saying you were outclassed and over matched But once that voice left your heart and flew ….in nothing did you lack I followed you out that afternoon in the late State College Fall And after fifty years of looking back every moment I recall I walked you to the bus as you said: “We’re in Harrisburg tonight “Why don’t you come, it might be fun from there I catch a flight” The bus was full, my eyes looked south as I hitchhiked down #322 Fate unexplained life forever changed —that special gift from you (Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2018)