First Love
Remix from an old journal
Published in
Jul 16, 2022
You found me intriguing enough
a diamond in the rough
But what I knew
that you didn’t know
Was you were captivated
by a play of light
A trick of the senses
self-inflicted
When the headiness wanes
as it always does
There is only clay unpolished
and untempered
The world is littered too full
already
With failed Pygmalion projects
wasteland of aborted wishes
We’d have been better off
the both of us
Had we just walked on by
that fateful day
But what I’d hoped
that you didn’t want
Was to know the shining promise
of first love perchance
© ine fandango 2022
Dedicated to the young Chinese guy I hope grew to find self-acceptance and who taught me the lesson of needing to find mine, as a fellow traveller outside the mainstream.
