It Seems Like Yesterday

Photograph is Linda’s and my wedding, June 5th, 1993

It seems like only yesterday, when I was a teenage boy;
Not worrying about the future, having only untold joy!
A test to get an A on, was all that worried me;
Or to have a date for Saturday, that all my friends would see!
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A pickup game of basketball, in the Spring, was always fun;
Or going to the drag strip, for a quarter mile run!
Bowling on Saturday mornings, in a league for younger men;
A dance with a great DJ, every now and then!
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In my Senior year, a girlfriend, puppy love was in the air;
She made my heart so happy, for her I truly cared!
We split when I turned nineteen, I went on a very wild rampage;
In the Summer of 1963, dating many girls of every age!
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Then, my life flew by so quickly, three marriages, all ending bad;
Finally, I found my Soulmate, never again to be so sad!
If only we had met as teenagers, how different things would have been;
She would have given me stability, instead of a twenty-eight year tailspin!
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I cry for those years without her, and all we would have done;
She would have been the mother of my children, each life, in her begun!
Oh Fate, why did you take so long, to join our hearts and Souls;
If you had hooked us up in high school, what a different story I’d have told!
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Where did the time go
Life flew by so damn quickly
Without my Soulmate