By Tanqueray Cowboy
Date: 2003 Jan 15
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A Fable (Gala's Challenge)

Chocolate on your breath
and on your lips...

A vivid reminder of the children we were.
When it was simple to feel this way
giddy like kids at the state fair.

But cotton-candy sticky hands
and corny jokes
are the sinful joys of lovers
far too young to know any better.

Soon came first beers
and serenades
Moonlit fields
and I'll-be-yours-forevers.

I remember that first semester break.
You came back,
just like you said you would.
(Adolescent whimsy
replaced
by earnest freshman philosophy)

Still, we shared those
crispy red apples
Stolen
at your giggling insistence.

Simple joys
like these chocolates I've brought you
will last as long as our dreams do.

So go ahead...

have another one

just for me.