When I Met(the Love of My Life)

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When I Met (the Love of My Life)She said, "half the town had gone, to watch our hometeam playbut I had my nose in Hamlet, in that old cafeyou came in and played some Journey, on the juke against the wallsaid you weren't kiddin' you flunked because you didn't get Shakespeare at allwe talked for hours and we shared, two plates of chili friesby the time the team returned, a red moon was on the risethere was honking and yelling, for the winners right outsidethough we held hands and slowly danced that still wasn't the nightwhen I met the love of my lifethe man you turned out to bebecause that endless momentis painted on my memory"then she kissed me and said "I'll never forgetwhen I met the love of my lifecos I still feel you holding me, our first morning of foreverhow sunrise sprinkled roses, and blessed our lives togetherhow you wiped your tears with my hair, and kissed away all minebut looking back now I still think somehow that wasn't the time when I met the love of my lifethe man you turned out to bebecause that endless momentis painted on my memory"then she kissed me and said "I'll never forgetwhen I met the love of my lifeno...it was when thunderclouds, darkened our country two-laneyou carried me to our Chevy, singin' Journey to ease my painit was how for fifteen hours, you never left my sidewhen our son was born during a summer storm...honey, that was the nightwhen I met the love of my lifethe man you turned out to bebecause that endless momentis painted on my memory"she toasted us and said I'll never forgetwhen I met the love of my life"(c)2006 Robert George