A girl like you.
In my youth I would have fought other boys for the right to walk you home. Wearing the scars like a badge. Or I would have wandered backwards and forwards past your house , hoping to catch a glimpse of you at a window. Or long for you to see me, a shadowy figure beneath the street light, and think me romantic.
In my youth I would have carved presumptuous initials into innocent trees, into battered park benches, into tables, and desks, and the backs of chairs – not caring if I was caught. Or that you would disapprove if you knew.
In my youth I would have sought you out at dances, making a mess of my over rehearsed lines. I would have asked a friend to give you messages – which you would probably receive with a frown.
In my youth I would have made up a hundred heroic stories in my head where I come to your rescue. Saving you from the clutches of the mob, the grip of an assailant, the jaws of death. Or perhaps just finding your lost dog.
In my youth I would have written you tortured poems, toiled over for hours, scrawled on stolen paper, that would never leave the pocket of my faded denim jeans.
In my youth I would have wished for the internet, if I could have seen into the future.
Yet here I am. Connection at my fingertips. Posting pointless poetry.
That you will probably never read
A girl like you.
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© the author writing as Romantic Dominant
Art by Annick Bouvattier
sirensong1208
May 23, 2016 at 6:55 pm
This is impossibly sweet and tender. An absolute delight to read.
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Romantic Dominant
May 23, 2016 at 9:53 pm
Smiles. Thank you.
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sirensong1208
May 23, 2016 at 10:13 pm
My pleasure. Smiles.
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angael2000 (@angael2000)
May 23, 2016 at 6:58 pm
Love this one. In our youth, we should have taken more chances, even if there was rejection…we would have survived as we know now. Instead of thinking, ‘coulda, woulda, shoulda’.
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Romantic Dominant
May 23, 2016 at 9:54 pm
Indeed so. Smiles.
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Cara
May 23, 2016 at 7:11 pm
In my youth, I should have noticed the boy who wanted to walk me home (rather than accept the attentions of my best friend’s stepfather).
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Romantic Dominant
May 23, 2016 at 9:54 pm
Ah, indeed.
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justagirllost2
May 23, 2016 at 7:15 pm
Lovely!
I do not miss the crushes and crushing angst of my youth, but I do miss the magic of fantasy and impossible hope.
Beautiful words 🍃🌺
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Romantic Dominant
May 23, 2016 at 9:54 pm
Thank you. Smiles.
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sweetcreature
May 23, 2016 at 8:53 pm
I love that…
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Romantic Dominant
May 23, 2016 at 9:55 pm
Thank you. Smiles.
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Ember
May 23, 2016 at 9:07 pm
Recklessly romantic…
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Romantic Dominant
May 23, 2016 at 9:55 pm
Smiles. Perhaps.
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what sandra thinks
May 23, 2016 at 11:10 pm
This is just the sort of beautiful writing I needed to read tonight. So thank you…
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Romantic Dominant
May 24, 2016 at 4:59 pm
I’m glad. Thank you
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emdimensional
May 24, 2016 at 3:10 am
I didn’t know you in your youth, but wisdom sits quite nicely upon you, so I’d much rather know you now, than as a boy. Of course my girl of days past would have thought you the most romantic creature, and swooned. Swooning is a dangerous activity sometimes, even now.
This piece is beautiful, as usual.
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Romantic Dominant
May 24, 2016 at 5:01 pm
The cure for a swoon used to be a loosening of clothing. So dangerous.
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emdimensional
May 25, 2016 at 1:10 am
There is that. But then again so are some corsets so girls probably took their chances. 🙂
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Romantic Dominant
May 25, 2016 at 10:20 am
Indeed. Smiles
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sweetsilverkitten
May 25, 2016 at 12:49 am
I think this will be one of my favorites. Well done, RD.
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Romantic Dominant
May 25, 2016 at 10:20 am
Smiles. Thank you.
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