Just a Boy & a Girl

Just a Boy & a Girl

I will tell you a tale,
It began long ago
On the first day of school when we met.

As young kids we had played –
Just a boy and a girl
With no thought as to what we could be.

We would run and we’d chase
Across playground cement.
He was always the fastest boy there.

But one day at the slide
A once innocent look –
It was suddenly so much more bright.

Slowly past went the years
And our textbooks got big,
And our chasing was done in our cars.

We were awkward and shy
Around everyone else
But together we didn’t much care.

And soon neighborhood fun
Turned to college, then jobs
And our friendship was never the same.

All the times we had known
Were just memories then
And I missed my old friend more than most.

But he called me one day
To the place that we’d spent
Many long summer days in the shade.

My old friend was now grown
And a man he’d become –
An odd feeling I felt in my heart.

And we sat under oak
By the dock at the lake –
I was nervous and didn’t know why.

Slowly taking my hands,
He was shaking, like me,
He had said those three words, “I love you.”

He had whispered them soft
But his eyes told of more
And I swam to the depths of his soul.

As young kids we had played –
Just a boy and a girl
With no thought as to what we would be.

And so this is my tale,
It began long ago
But our lives have just started to grow.

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