Love Poem: Reminisce
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Written by: Franklin Price

Reminisce

Reminisce
By Franklin Price
06/02/2022

I look back today and reminisce
Of sixty-nine and our first kiss
It was your birthday twenty-one
In celebration, just for fun

We partied at the old La Scene
The dance floor flashing red and green
Our friends, all worked at KSC
Including, you guessed it, you and me

I asked if you would like to dance
No thoughts of  love or just romance
No idea for my mind to roam 
You had an infant child at home

I'd just returned, been off to war
Newly divorced, back on the floor
You then, were married,  to another
A lying cheater, not some other

It was a slow song, I held you tight
Somehow, some way, it felt so right
At the end, I dipped you south
And kissed you squarely on the mouth

There were no tongues to interfere
And then I whispered in your ear
Happy Birthday twenty-one
This dance, with you, was so much fun

When that party night did end
Had no idea, I'd kissed, my life's best friend
That by November, we'd be as one
I'd be with you, 'til life was done

The season Spring, when we first met
That first kiss, I'll not forget
Nor can forget your cheating spouse
Who led to love within our house

Was fifty-three long years ago
No better life, I'd ever know
You passed this year, tears came like rain
I would gladly do it all again