Upon This I Hitched My Dreams
written by: Arvilla Fee
@vil_fee
too young and dumb
to know the difference
between love and lust,
a high-school sweetheart
was my ticket out of town;
riding shotgun
in a rusty pick-up truck,
we were going off to college,
he for business, me for nurse;
how naive at age eighteen
to hitch my dreams to a star
destined to explode
in the boundless universe;
turns out college girls
collect desires like keychains,
and straying eyes
often lead to straying hands;
what a fool to think
he was my forever;
dreams dispense into the ether
as soon as one awakes
Arvilla Fee lives in Dayton, Ohio. She has published poetry, photography, and short stories in numerous presses, including Calliope, North of Oxford, Rat’s Ass Review, Mudlark, and many others. Her poetry books, The Human Side and This is Life, are available on Amazon.
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