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Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

0 posted 2012-09-19 08:57 PM

She takes me back
like it was yesterday
I'd turned sixteen
the end of December
Early that February
he turned eighteen

He flipped a switch
inside me
and Lord have mercy
nothing was the same

I could not resist
the white hot flame
that we ignited
in our ignorance

My first taste of passion
or just good old fashioned lust
I thought it was love
I never had enough

It took twenty years
for that illusion
to finally
bite the dust

Now she's just
fifteen this summer
and he is still seventeen
She's too young
but you couldn't tell by looking

Small town school
where the kids were cruel
she has become a swan
and nothing is the same

I worry that he is out
for senior year notches
the first to be where no man
has gone before

I worry that
he'll flip her switch
and take what she's
been saving

I worry that
she won't see it coming
and when it does
she'll be too to hot
to care at all

LGR(C)9/19/12

[This message has been edited by Lori Grosser Rhoden (09-19-2012 10:08 PM).]

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2012-09-19 09:15 PM

Teenage years. Hindsight and all that. Thoughts were profound.

~*~ If they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

2 posted 2012-09-19 09:27 PM

Wonderful write, my friend. I remember the same anxieties with mine.

Very good write ... the lead in was perfect.

Good luck...

j.

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

3 posted 2012-09-19 10:21 PM

She is my pearl afterall, I fear the swine.
in their prime...yet well I know that day will come for her and I want her to know what I wish my mother would have told me...

Thanks Jerry and j.

Lori

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

4 posted 2012-09-19 11:12 PM

And you will take advantage of your knowledge
and your location
and somehow place and/or post and/or share this with the
beings that are within your presence

YES???

YES!!!

Excellent work, my friend. I know what this kind of writing
has taken upon your soul!

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

5 posted 2012-09-20 08:38 AM

Thanks Karilea,
I shared it with my daughter and she wanted a copy. She was touched by the fact I had written about her. I assume she will share it with her new boyfriend. Ironically this is the best thig that has happened to us in a long time....We have talked more in the last week than we have in a year.

Lori

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