Strange Attraction

It started with a dedication
 "Lost in admiration
 Happy birthday – I'm forever yours – Blossom"
 Faded red inside
 A tiny book of butterflies
 I smiled, surprised at how when flickered through
 The wings flew by spelled out my name
 Woo!
 Six months went by the summer lost
 Obsessively the letters dropped into my life
 The same soft blood smooth flowing hand
 "Please try to understand
 I have to see you
 Have to feel you
 Tell you all the ways I need you
 Yours forever in love"
 Strange attraction spreads its wings
 It varies but the smallest things
 You never know how anything will change
 Strange attraction spreads its wings
 And alters but the smallest things
 You never know how anything will fade
 The year grew old incessantly
 She wrote to me
 She'd started smoking poetry!
 I laughed in recognition of a favourite phrase
 She'd pulled me in
 I answered her
 A Christmas card in sepia
 Arranging when and where
 And how the two of us should meet
 Her opening so well prepared
 A nervous smile
 I couldn't take my eyes from her
 She whispered
 "Can I use some of your lipstick?"
 It was perfect, so believable
 I couldn't help but feel that it was real
 Kissing crimson
 Fell into her waiting arms
 Strange attraction spreads its wings
 It varies but the smallest things
 You never know how anything will change
 Strange attraction spreads its wings
 And alters but the smallest things
 You never know how anything will fade
 So alone into the cold New Year
 Without another word from her
 I wrote to ask if we could maybe
 Meet again before the spring
 Weeks went by with no reply
 Until once more my birthday came
 With it my surprise
 But this time nothing was the same
 "I'm sorry – blame infatuation
 Blame imagination
 I was sure you'd be the one
 But I was wrong
 It seems reality destroys our dreams
 I won't forget you – Blossom"
 Faded red inside
 A tiny book of old goodbyes
 Strange attraction spreads its wings
 It varies but the smallest things
 You never know how anything will change
 Strange attraction spreads its wings
 And alters but the smallest things
 And you never know
 And you never know
 And you never know