“Youthful Memories” by John J. Rigo Texas’ Poet

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Age seventeen, top row, third from left.

What time never erases

is memories of a first love.

A sweetness of innocence never regained again.

It was a brief five minutes that our eyes met that summer day.

I a young man with the blue uniform of a brand new Air Force Recruit.

Tall strong and youthful at seventeen

still in the midst of basic training at an Air Force Base.

You at sixteen with a beauty that was clear and eternal of the moment.

My bus was leaving,

the connection of our eyes was unmistakenable.

In just minutes we swore a forever love between us.

Truly that moment was a magic

that will never be again.

Two parts of a universe

meeting in a most unlikely place.

It has been fifty-one years since that meeting.

Still I remember you from time to time

in such vivid detail.

I wish you Love in the journey you took beyond

the days of our permanent separation

five years latter.

Was I then a vessel of a lost ship

for a very long time.

The haunting of a First Love

never leaves Love’s Way.

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