A Glimpse of Blue
written by: Steve Pidduck
Decades before
First love had come
A fervent affair
Never surpassed
In English June
He would wait
As summer blazed
Over shimmering corn
For faded denim
On a sweet lissome form
A glimpse of blue
They walked by the river
To a special place
Cool swirling waters flowed
Past the dappled retreat
Passion soared
The cloudless sky
He sank into violet eyes
But illness claimed her
One so young
Deep in his core
He came undone
***
An old man now
At their rendezvous
A last time to follow
Footsteps from long ago
As he sat, hours flew
By overgrown watersides
Vivid memories grew
He stood, at the end
Tired eyes intent
Watching the rippling corn
The past held tight
Gripped by what had been
Their summer of love
So flawless, yet forlorn
Images made manifest
Her beauty reborn
In a brief, fleeting vision
Reality’s veil was torn
From the spaces in-between
His perfect, timeless girl
In faded garb was seen…
A final glimpse of blue
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