When I think of him
My heart skips a beat
When he looks my way
My face flushes with heat
When he speaks to me
I wonder what to say
In everything I do
I give myself away
I have a new crush
Divine masterpiece
I am not dead yet –
Passion, to be seized
Tag crush
My One True Crush
My one true crush is back in town
My hair is not done, my roots on display
My weight has increased, my wrinkles have grown
I think of his eyes, the depth of his blue
And see the echo in his child who is new
I cross the street, I’d rather be swayed
To not say hello, to not stop and greet
I cannot be trusted, my arms won’t behave
To not wrap around him, to hug and embrace
I’ll leave the past, dead as it is
And ignore the sound roaring –
Those pounding heart beats
Life Goes On
I had a crush on someone.
His blue eyes melted mine.
He melted me.
I changed my dress, my hair, my walk, my talk.
Anything for him to notice me.
And he did.
Before he noticed someone else.
Yesterday
Their baby was born.
My Crush
I had a crush on him
He was the sun and the moon and the stars in the sky
He was everything I dreamed him to be
I’d always been a flower on the wall
So I did what I could for him to notice me
I spruced and preened and plucked and tanned
I batted my eyelashes and changed my style
And he noticed me, he did I can say
But it was not enough for him to stay
For more than the fleeting moment when he grasped my hand
And for that moment my heart leapt up, my world became alive
He moved on to brighter lands
Leaving me with a memory so many moons ago
Of a solitary moment when he noticed me
Took my hand in his own
And then let it go
Poems and Petals 