Dear sweet poet
can you write me into your story?
Take me out for coffee
I'll tell you some interesting plot twists
and turns
details ...
about a burning need
I didn't heed
the warning signs
I am here anyway

I'd like to find an alternate ending
I'd take a love story
one of honor and glory
Sweet poet..
my handsome young man
Take my outstretched, wanting
waiting.... hand

Take me out for coffee
Write me into your romantic story
I promise you won't be sorry
let's go
while we're still young
and while the sun
is shining on the silhouette on my bedroom wall
while time is still kind
and it is smiling on my face.

Cherie Nolan © 2016