LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT . . .
Not long ago I fell in love,
but unreturned is my affection.
The girl that I’m enamored of
pays little heed in my direction.
I thought I knew her fairly well
(in fact, I’d had my arm around her).
And so it’s hard to have to tell
How unresponsive I have found her.
And though she is not frankly rude,
her manners quite the wrong way rub me.
It seems to me ingratitude
to let me love her, and then snub me!
Though I’m considerate and fond,
she shows no gladness when she spies me.
She gazes off somewhere beyond
and doesn’t even recognize me.
Her eyes, so candid, calm and blue,
seem asking if I can support her
in the style appropriate to
a lady like her father’s daughter.
Well, if I can’t then no one can,
and let…
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