First Love

#vj69Ai #storyteller #my #first #love #FirstLove The sky was ready for the rain to fall after all I wasn’t looking for a ghost just trying to feel the beat Of a world that had grown heavy a heart that knew its age Then I saw you by the bookstore turning a familiar page You looked up slow and harmless then your eyes went wide as mine Fifty years had passed us by but there you were in time And we smiled oh how we smiled Through the ache of all those years The wrinkles and the gray The sorrows on display But the girl I knew was standing there And the boy you loved was still somewhere We laughed and talked the whole day through My first love… my first love… like nothing changed but time flew We sat down on a bench of rust your hands still spoke your truth You said life took you far away I said it did me too We talked of kids and surgeries of losses sharp as glass Then some joke about our high school dance and we just had to laugh You brushed a tear and called it rain I didn’t say a word Just hearing you breathe easy was the sweetest song I’d heard And we smiled oh how we smiled Through the ache of all those years The wrinkles and the gray The sorrows on display But the girl I knew was standing there And the boy you loved was still somewhere We laughed and talked the whole day through My first love… my first love… like nothing changed but time flew We didn’t kiss we didn’t fall back into young and wild We just held each other’s loneliness and let it rest a while ... And we smiled oh we smiled No regret no bitterness defiled Just the wonder in your eyes And the truth we don’t disguise The one who knew me way back when The only one I’d smile for then We laughed and talked the whole day through My first love… my first love… My beautiful... my long-lost true… The sky was ready for the rain to fall After all