Sign Language
Sign Language
A June morning.
Blazing sunshine.
It was hot.
Not a drop.
Their eyes clashed.
She blushed.
He looked away.
A hot flush.
Seven days more.
She wrote a note.
He raced through it.
His heart skipped many a beat.
She loved white.
She was shy.
He was true.
He loved to write.
In love like this,
He hadn’t been before.
Not a word, not a smile.
Only the eyes.
It was tough
To genuinely love.
So they quit.
That was it.
Thirty years.
Far away from her.
He cried.
She knew he tried.