My First Love

A lifetime ago we escaped from our parents

It was the heat of midsummer the relentless sun.

By the edge of the lake the cooling waters

splashed our toes washing the sand from them.

Down deep in the pure cool spring fed water

Where minnows fed the Bass and lake trout.

We were two innocents baptized in natures glow.

Your soft golden hair and eyes of robin’s egg blue.

Do you remember how you escaped my grip?

And splashing free of encumbrance

Swam like a fish unaided for the first time.

Leaving your fear in the water for the last time

I think we were five then

Too small to be swimming alone.

I remember that was when

I fell in love with you.

Do you know you were my first love?

Even back then

When the sun shone forever

and my heart was innocent.

I still have the old place on the lake

Even after all these years

Even after we both grew up

and married others.

I see my children

swimming in the summer sun

as we did back then.

My thoughts of that day are sweet

No one else can ever be my first love

but you.