Tuesday, June 4, 2024

Too good to be true (2014)

  

As I think back on it it

I realize that

When it is

Too good to be true,

It IS too good to be true,

When she called

To tell me that,

How much she is

Into me,

When I knew

Even then

It wasn’t true.

All too aware of my age

And hers

And I think

She must be crazy.

Or that she must

Have mistaken me

For some body else,

Too good to be true,

And yet,

How in the years since

I wish to hear her voice

In the dead of night

Telling me this

Bitter-sweet lie,

An old man’s fantasy

I still wish for

As I uncork the bottle

With the genie in it,

Too good to be true

Though I would

Sell my soul

For hear it again

To hang on every word

As if truth,

Still too scared

Out of my wits

As I was then

To utter anything

But disbelief,

Too good to be true

A memory bubble

I’ll spend a life time

Living in,

Remembering it all

Then forgetting

That time

When the bubble

Burst.

Too good to be true


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