Her attire was a cream frilled dress,
Complete with polished leather shoes,
Her golden hair tied back with shiny red bows,
And her pink cherry lips.
You wore your torn blue dungarees,
The ones with the button clinging on for dear life,
Your boots caked in mud from the puddles,
And the tangled dark hair.
To the ignorant eye of the onlooker
You would seem like a pair of opposites
As you dragged her off, clasping her hand,
To adventures untold.
Tearing through the maze of thick woodland,
The crackle of crisp, fresh grass beneath
Your feet as the spider’s web knitted itself
Across your skin.
Rolling down the dew-draped hill, laughing,
Her cheeks scarred brown, ripped silk,
As the blotches of dirt stained the glossy dress,
Now not so pure.
Little fingers twisted behind backs
As you stood before estranged parents who,
Blinded by shades of mud, failed to see the importance of
Foiling ant raids.
Her parents tried to keep you at bay,
Dubbing you “mad” and “out of control” –
“She’s only a girl, you ought to be ashamed.”
Never understood.
But two sides of a coin you were and remained,
As each night you returned from your frolics
Looking like you’d been “pulled through a
Hedge backwards.”
So every sunrise, by the gate with the broken catch,
You’d meet – another striped shirt, her hair tied afresh,
Soon to be displaced from its tamed state and
Thrown into disarray.
The time when she tripped and fell on the
Gravel path; blood trickling in a gentle stream
Down her slender leg, splashing on the ground
As she cried.
Retrieving a spotted handkerchief from your pocket,
You wrapped it gently around her knee,
Like your arm around her shoulder,
‘Till tears ceased.
Times changed and years bore weight upon you,
Childhood antics subsisted no more,
Ambition tore you steadily apart –
Two best friends.
But as you sit here quietly in solitude
Contemplating a capture of the chains of history,
Your first and only love…
Who would have thought?
Copyright © 2002, Lisa Harris. All rights reserved
Submitted: June 30th, 2002
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