BLACK MAGIC
Published in "LOVE / WAR - Remembering and Letting Go", February 2007
Copyright © 2007,2008
Jason Lester Atkins
985 Fleet Drive, #347
Virginia Beach, VA 23454
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Love visions floating like wavy pictures
Projected on the white wall of my mind
A college dance invitation
A beauty in a pink dress
The time of first kiss parting
Smitten with first love's magic
Remembering Pearl Harbor
The whole world changing
A marriage twelve days later
Love lettes overseas
Floating pictures of a baby boy
Then, two more
A new home: a traveling job
A phone call to my hotel at midnight
Hurry home: Unexpected hospital
During two hour drive home: you left
World changing again
Knowing love has no death
Concealing a broken heart
With a blanket of work
Two years of single life vision
Then, in same town as first school dance
A friend introduces a friend
She and I swore: no new life partners
We married on New Year's day
For thirty-five years we have been in a spin
"Loving the spin we are in
That old black magic called Love"
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