Those Youthful Days Of Discovery

My very first love was Janice Valentine

Way back when I was in Grade One

A very appropriate name wouldn't you say

The year was 1941 two years into World War II

Strangely, an exciting time for us guys

We had heroes marching off to war

Too young to understand what it was all about

Seemed like a kind of a game of “us versus them”

Unaware that real people were actually dying

My head was in a whirl when someone told me

Janice loves me and thinks I'm cute

I could hardly contain myself

Lost my appetite, couldn't sleep, blew my little mind

But if I really stop and think about it

My first serious crush was at the age of thirteen

Strangely enough, couldn't eat or sleep then either

Except instead of puppy love, this was REAL love

My loins were screaming naughty things to me

I had this strange new urge

Let's just say, I was attracted to this lassie

Except for what I thought was some lurid love making

Never really amounted to anything more than groping

Then at age fifteen I met HER!!!

A very promiscuous young girlie

Who took me to a place I'd never been before

Her name was Mary but she surely was no saint

The memory of those first encounters

Are indelibly etched in my psyche

They say you never forget that first incredible encounter

In my case that is most assuredly true

Oh to relive those youthful days of discovery!