Love Poem: Playmates
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Written by: Jan Pearce

Playmates

Little boy,
     come play with me
            escaping vague realities.

                   Come sing the songs you left unsung
                          from empty days when you were young,
                                 and cast aside, for just a while,
                                       the frown you force
                                                for laughing smiles.

                                                        Come take my hand,
                                                               in knowing trust,
                                                                      to find your dreams,
                                                                               since turned to dust.

                                                                       Come feel my warmth
                                                               and generous kiss;
                                                       come gather now
                                             the love you've missed.

                                    Come be my prince, my pride, my peer;
                              the proof I find to words I hear.

                   Come sail my seas and touch my skies
          and feel the breeze of cloudy highs,
                 for I have waited all these years,
                          through darkened nights and frequent tears,
                                  to find that tender, touching soul
                                           that I once loved
                                                      so long ago...