I Love being inspired by other poets & I recently read a piece that sparked the idea for this poem. It was far darker than mine however. It was from the perspective of someone who had made these carefree plans of moving to Ohio (of all places) & doing silly things with the person they Loved. Then time & resposiblity got in the way of everything they had hoped to do. I read it & immediately wanted to say to the writer "It's not too late!!"
You know, it’s not too late
to give this story a happy ending.
We could run off to Paris & change
our names to Claude & Sally,
or something more glamorous even…
like Alphonse & Veronique.
I mean,
we are still young (enough)
to run laughing hand-in-hand
into the wild & beautiful
oblivion of hope.
We can live, in a cottage by the sea
where I can take care of you &
you can sing songs for me &
help me remember where I put my smile
when I carelessly misplaced it.
I promise, there is plenty of time
to Love & create
to sing & to smile
because we are still young enough,
to grow old & silly together.
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