Just a Boy & a Girl

I will tell you a tale...

it began long ago

on the first day of school when we met.

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As young kids we had played;

just a boy and a girl

with no thought as to what we could be.

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We would run and we'd chase

across playground cement.

He was always the fastest boy there.

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But one day at the slide ,

a once innocent look,

it was suddenly so much more bright.

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Slowly past went the years

and our textbooks got big,

and our chasing was done in our cars.

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We were awkward and shy

around everyone else

but together we didn't much care.

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And soon neighborhood fun

turned to college, then jobs,

and our friendship was never the same.

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All the times we had known

were just memories then,

and I missed my old friend more than most.

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But he called me one day

to the place that we'd spent

many long summer days in the shade.

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My old friend was now grown

and a man he'd become;

an odd feeling I felt in my heart.

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And we sat under oak

by the dock at the lake;

I was nervous and didn't know why.

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Slowly taking my hands,

he was shaking, like me,

he had said those three words, "I love you."

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He had whispered them soft

but his eyes told of more

and I swam to the depths of his soul.

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As young kids we had played,

just a boy and a girl,

with no thought as to what we would be.

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And so this is my tale...

it began long ago ,

but our lives have just started to grow.