My Love
When first our paths crossed
When we hardly noticed each other
So ner­vous about the recital we were
Still I noticed you
The tall curly haired girl who played as I did
Despite, we hardly knew each other
When fate paired us in a brain con­test
The sugar high boy and the teacher’s daugh­ter
Eng­lish came and went, and we devel­oped
What may be called more than a pass­ing interest

Before long, high school was here!
We met new peo­ple, and had dif­fer­ent sched­ules
But things went wrong, and mis­takes came
Tragedy knocked one day
And our lives changed
Com­fort was taken in shared knowl­edge
and excuses were made to talk for hours
finally know­ing the other which had
caught their eye for so long
and the intri­cate dance began
Yet the boy was way­ward, look­ing else­where
for what he really had already found
but not net real­ized
time passed, and the girl was patient
soon a night came what was not soon for­got­ten
Poorly asked and exe­cuted
both were soon excited
for twirling snow and dancers
were lovely, yet were not the high­light
for the two young adults were together at last
Span­ish books to v-day can­dies
they went through it all
find­ing out what it was like
to be with some­one per­fect
every­thing every­one else was not
Edu­ca­tion plots lives
and theirs was no excep­tion
Seat­tle
Pull­man
Yet never truly apart
Through it all, the boy and the girl
remained true
and com­mit­ted to each other
study­ing in the fall, and work­ing in the sum­mer
They always found time for each other
True love
truly mag­i­cal
the boy and the girl
per­fect for each
Thank you for com­fort­ing me when I’m down,
for lis­ten­ing when nobody else under­stands,
for talk­ing when nobody else can,
for intro­duc­ing me to your pas­sions,
for being in my life,
for being your­self,
for being my best friend,
for being amazing.