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You Made Me Love You
I was twenty,
you were nineteen,
that day along the mall
When I heard a guitar
from deep inside,
that round auditorium hall
Up on stage with legends,
Son House, Muddy,
Johnny Winter too
A red haired, freckle faced,
blue eyed girl
commenced to sing the blues
You started with an apology,
saying you were outclassed
and over matched
But once that voice
left your heart and flew
….in nothing did you lack
I followed you out
that afternoon,
in the late State College Fall
And after fifty years of looking back,
every moment
I recall
I walked you to the bus
as you said:
“We're in Harrisburg tonight
“Why don't you come,
it might be fun,
from there I catch a flight”
The bus was full,
my eyes looked south
as I hitchhiked down #322
Fate unexplained,
life forever changed,
-that special gift from you
(Villanova Pennsylvania: Looking Back- March, 2018)
you were nineteen,
that day along the mall
When I heard a guitar
from deep inside,
that round auditorium hall
Up on stage with legends,
Son House, Muddy,
Johnny Winter too
A red haired, freckle faced,
blue eyed girl
commenced to sing the blues
You started with an apology,
saying you were outclassed
and over matched
But once that voice
left your heart and flew
….in nothing did you lack
I followed you out
that afternoon,
in the late State College Fall
And after fifty years of looking back,
every moment
I recall
I walked you to the bus
as you said:
“We're in Harrisburg tonight
“Why don't you come,
it might be fun,
from there I catch a flight”
The bus was full,
my eyes looked south
as I hitchhiked down #322
Fate unexplained,
life forever changed,
-that special gift from you
(Villanova Pennsylvania: Looking Back- March, 2018)
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You Made Me Love You
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