For those who celebrate

Happy National Bad Poetry Day! Luckily my husand keeps track of these important days. I am not proud that I let National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day go by without proper recognition, and I certainly do not want to have any regrets tomorrow morning. Should it have hurt my feelings that my husband asked if I wanted to read some of my bad poetry to celebrate the day? Maybe, but instead I was touched that he thought of me and my little fabric covered book of wonders.

I know I have gone to this well before, so I want to make sure to share something never before revealed here on the blog. I am nearly positive that these gems (take two, they're small) have only been shared with the object of my affection they were written for back in the fall of 1986...nearly 40 years ago!? Let the cringe begin!

9/18/86

I know where I am
Yet I'm lost

Lost in my thoughts of you.

Dreaming of when

Our paths last crossed

Now you've escaped from view.

I'm surrounded by people

Yet I'm lonely

Longing to have you near.

Come back soon

If only

So I can whisper in your ear...

...I love you

10/22/86

Laugh and I will laugh

Right along with you

For knowing that you're happy

Makes me feel warm inside too.

Cry and I'll cry

Right along with you

For knowing that you're hurting

Makes me also feel blue

Love and I'll love

Right along with you

For this bond of love we've made

Will last forever true!

[Spoiler: It did not]

I hope these brought you a little chuckle. The squirm for me is not that I wrote these, but how incredible I thought they were at the time!