Kurt Philip Behm Poet Rhyme

You Made Me Love You

I was twenty, 
 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: Looking Back- March, 2018)

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