Florida 2003

A few words about you, if I may.
We met, after all, and you drew me that map
That made me fall in love and cry at the same time

That you should be so expert with your hand
Yet be there bagging groceries with your smile.
Did you know the books you could write

And the oceans you could cross
With the skill you showed?
Did you know the infection

Your laughing ways could cause
As such a creature of the sun
Ebullient in dire straits?

I wanted to award you a scholarship to Cambridge
Right then and there and have you sleep in winter beauty
With your intelligence no longer at rest

And instead drove off and lost my way
In spite of all your care.
Oh, the heartbreak of it.

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