In a random crowd

You’re a face I haven’t seen

A glimpse of you, please?

"Daddy,"* said Catharine as I tucked her
into bed, "will you tell me a tale?"
So I told her the story
of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
with Disney's ***** and Grumpy  
thrown in for good measure;
and when I finished she pulled out
an apple from under her pillow
and she said I should eat it
I laughed and I did, and spent 7 days in hospital
And my doctor said I was lucky to have survived
the poisoned apple
Catharine won't tell us where she got it from

Today Catharine stands before me
and her stepmom
as we have dinner
And she places two pink cupcakes on the table
and she smiles, and she whispers:
*"Eat...that's from Hansel and Gretel"

From the moment I met you, I loved you.
I just didn't know it yet.
I yearned, in denial, to be near you.
To catch a glimpse of your smile,
Cradle your laugh in my abstract mind.
A foreign drug I'll never forget.

Then, the explosion of passion, intense.
A release I'd never known.
Crash from one place to the next, electric.
The sparks your fingers trailed,
Still resonate through my head daily.
The roots have planted, the love has grown.

Don't matter you're a
big fish in a
small
pond
if
it's

DRY


SoulSurvivor
Catherine Jarvis
(C) September 30, 2014