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Neville Johnson Nov 2020
Heather is a new arrival in the city of LA
She gets a job at the library
Meager is the pay
She’s trying to be happy
Finding her way
Hoping for love and a baby someday

Nick is new to LA too
He’s in from Edinburgh
Here for three months to do a book on Hal Ashby
Whose papers are stored at the library where Heather works
He is there every day
She helps him find documents and decipher Ashby’s scrawl
They become secret friends
Eating lunch together on a bench nearby

One thing led to another
They begin to hang out
From Venice to hikes in Will Rogers Park
But Heather worries
Is Nick too young?
If the difference is more than 10 years, she tells herself it must be wrong
She learns Nick is 24 to her 37
She is resigned to the fact that this romance cannot go on
Nick returns to Scotland despite their bond

There’s a rendezvous in New York
But ultimately they're resigned to their fate
It won’t work even though it’s been great

Heather drops him an email
Which led to a phone call
Nick says he wants to visit her
But Heather says no
She needs commitment
Surely, that he must know

Here’s the surprise for Nick replies
He wants to live with her
Their future relies on their love
Their love never dies
They are 13 years married with a kid of 10
Today they are showing her the library where they met
Where it all began
Neville Johnson Nov 2020
Jerry waits
He tells Jenny he loves her
He’s waiting for her to say she loves him back
She has a daughter, Mary, to whom he says “I love you.”
Mary says “I love you too.”
Jenny, when asked about this, replies
“I want to show my love by my actions”
Indeed, she does, but Jerry wants more
You can’t blame him
He wants her to say so
Jerry waits
He may wait forever
He can’t live without Jenny
Neville Johnson Nov 2020
As pretty as a full moon
As kind as can be
Everything one could want
Yet a mystery
She makes his heart race
He’s just done
He aches
He so wants her
She is the one
If she could
He would
Admit
Commit
It could be
Oh, he is anxious
But isn’t that what always happens?
If it’s love
He will be free
Neville Johnson Oct 2020
Pret l’amour
Love to go
Available and free
Let me know
Come and see
No history
To make you go slow
I’m here all the time
Ready to be
Totally open
No man of mystery
Pret l’amour
I’m ready to love
"
Neville Johnson Oct 2020
Mary and Ted are on their honeymoon in Vermont
Joel sits in a dark room with the TV on
As the leaves turn brown
He turns up the sound
But it won’t drown the sorrow in his heart
For he loves her, really loved her
Forever now they will be apart
He did everything he could
Gave everything he had
He knows he did his best
It’s so bad and sad
Remembering her kisses
On that balmy beach at night
He smiles then grimaces
This is not all right
He’s powerless and misses
The one who was his light
But Mary has gotten married
The future is not bright
She doesn’t want to see him
To talk to him anymore
Vanished are dreams of happiness
Of that he is sure
Will his broken heart ever heal?
He hopes for a cure
Neville Johnson Oct 2020
To love is to surrender
To the thought that there is purpose
Meaning in the world
That comes down to two
Turning into one
Each is hungry for the other
When the other is gone
That’s how Nev feels about Cindy
Saying so on her birthday
It’s a marriage made in heaven
Earth is where they play
She is such a beauty
Smart and brave and kind
Neville really loves her
She blows his mind
Neville Johnson Oct 2020
You can never get too much of love
Ain’t that true?
One dose and you’re hooked forever
Just as you knew
Falling in love and getting married
Isn’t that the dream?

It starts with holding hands
Next the arm around the waist
Followed by a kiss
Then the warm embrace

You connect on many levels
It feels like home
A magical event
No need to roam

It closes the circle
When husband meets wife
You can never get too much love
Welcome to life
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