Why? PoetsPub 2021 Achievement Hunter Challenge

Achievement #80 - Our Unforgettable Love

Our Unforgettable Love

This takes me back to a time when I didn't understand love

Over sixty years of experience have passed, and I'm still confused

I remember how it began with a fascination

Looking back all, I can see is an out and out tomboy

You definitely were no beauty, not that you ever tried to be

There's one thing for sure you definitely had no designs on me

The only way I got you to notice me, was by smacking a snowball in your face

As you could imagine, that didn't help, you just saw me as an adversary

I wrote you a love letter, you never got to see, maybe just as well

I have no idea what I wrote, but my father found it and decided it was disgusting

He gave me the most pious god-fearing dressing down you could imagine

In a righteous display of disapproval, he tore up the letter right under my nose

We were stood in front of an open fire, where he ceremoniously threw the letter's remains

My secret love affair ended right there and then, with a head full of shame

But the thought of you still lingers in my mind and gives me a warm sparkle

A lovely thought on a cloudy day, that will never go away, unless I share it with you

I'll keep it to myself, that way it's safe from the risk of ultimate destruction

Footnote:

I could have made something up but would rather share, having lived most of my life in reality and only had one secret love, the rest were short-lived crushes, quickly fulfilled or easily forgotten, I blame my father lol.