Sunday, 26 January 2025

First love

 


First love sits in a diary page,

planning life with a faded marker pen.

A page I revisit once in a while,

when I need to smile, for those first steps

always help you find a bigger stride.

A more meaningful way of leading life.

Mistakes we made, become lessons to teach.

Words of the young, too thinly spread,

too scared to let those words breach

any chance of happiness you could find,

but they wear themselves into your skin.

Words you should have said, like sorry

when you were the fault in the story,

so hard to say way back when

are now so much easier to unthread.

 

We were still learning

to be true to who we are.

Me, still a boy

not yet the man I could be.

I never allowed myself

to believe in me,

instead, I was always

just a character piece.

I could never let my heart fly,

So scared was I

that I'd fumble the catch

when it fell

like a teardrop tumbling

from my eye.

 

Long before it starts growing

first loves heart is too scared of showing,

It doesn't know the way,

It can't find the right words to say.

It stumbles, trying to understand

the crazy paving that covers the pathway.

But in later days it starts to make sense,

it rides the waves of consequence,

it washes away the shine of innocence

and finds its road into the future

however slowly,

starting to show its presence.

 

Sometimes reminiscing is a painful lesson,

when you look to the scars you wear,

the suit of armour you wore,

the hurt you caused, the self-hate

that you buried deep

because you thought the world

could never care,

but in time you see

the moments that were happy.

Viewed in clarity, a page of history,

where life moved briskly.

 

Our mistakes fade into

the pouring rain of heartbroken tears,

like a dream upon waking, they

wash over the pavements

leading to our future lives.

Where first love sits on a page

of a book on my shelf.

Fragments of days, sketched messily

over past pictures of yourself.

To remind that my personal wealth

is the love I can give, because

I know it never showed when

first love was still so young.

 

 




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Kyle



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