Who is the girl you fell in love with?

Is she this naive, shy thing.. a mere wisp of a girl?
Does she have a heart of gold, and unsurmountable capacity for forgiving and understanding all of your mistakes?

Half angel, Half tart?

Your innocent schoolgirl, who could fuck like a whore in bed?
Does she look up to you like a mentor, yet in her head she has the mind of a scholar?
Cunning, bright, and smart.. yet she is all yours

- Victoria Palmer, 1999

If to whom I fell were just a "girl"

I would not know this light; a warm anthracite hue that illuminates untread pathways of emotion

By way of her soul, the catalyst of divinity lies in her beauty; reflections only subconsciously evinced

I find myself waiting to remind her that she is the archetype of a beauty so long in want by so many

Lest I forget the simple thrills, projections of elation, running my fingers through her hair

So I caressed the hands which held me underwater, her essence precluded retreat

The soul-less have no ground in a callous world, the lesson I found...

Because her timid, silent love was daunting enough to rise like magma from the center of being

To save us all. And I shall never hold regret

The look in her eyes; a reflection of my own anxiety and fear, floating on couches, a bruised world

A recluse, a stranger. And then gone

I fell in love with someone more than just a "girl"

I fell in love with a sister, a mother, a nurse...an angelic presence

A friend I'd never had, and an ear I'd never been lent...a joy for which I still ache, a sensation I will forever seek

And an opportunity to be the same

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