Category: Romance

Best Vacation Ever

While vacationing in a foreign city,
I was having coffee at an outside café.
I saw her approach, she was looking pretty.
I knew at once I wanted her to stay.

I invited her to sit at my table.
Most spots were taken up.
She smiled and took off her sable.
Sat and set down her coffee cup.

She said it was kind of me to offer.
She just needed her morning jump.
I said the expresso with its froth here.
It will wire you for a jump.

She laughed and said it hit the spot.
She asked me about myself.
I said vacationing, not a lot.
She said with someone or by yourself?

By myself. Just a little down time.
She said she thought only she did that.
Are you on vacation? What a line.
We both laughed. The rest is fact.

She smelled like peaches and cream.
We hit it off from the very start.
We were almost neighbors, it seemed.
We ended up walking in a park.

From there it was like a dream come true.
Neither expected anything like this.
It just shows, if you haven’t a clue.
It can end up being a life of bliss.

———————————R.W. Johnson—–(2018)

A Date That’s Not A Date

Oh Sandy, the night is finally here.
We have a date. That much is clear.
A nightclub for drinks and dancing.
Maybe time for a little romancing.
We arrive and get a corner table.
Were in the dark as much as able.
Sitting there with martini glazed eyes.
You seem spaced out. What a surprise.
You don’t respond when I ask you to dance.
It seems like you are in a trance.
You have a one way ticket to yesterday.
You just sit there with nothing to say.
An occasional smile crosses your lips.
I didn’t know you were into such trips.
I shake you and your vision clears.
You ask for a drink, almost in tears.
Another round of drinks are brought.
Then off you go, lost in thought.
You have a one way ticket to yesterday.
There is nothing else I can say.
I sit there and nurse my drink.
I need some fresh air so I can think.
At closing time I take her home.
I am feeling like I am all alone.
She says she really enjoyed the evening.
She waves goodbye as I am leaving.
It was the weirdest date I’ve ever been on.
The whole evening with her, she was gone.
I don’t know if there will be another.
Just the thought of it, I have my druthers.

——————————-R.W. Johnson—–(2018)

Coming On Strong

Coming on strong.
I wanted it to go on and on.
I feared when she’d be gone.
She was coming on strong.

I wanted her to stay.
Maybe she might think it’s wrong.
For her to be coming on strong.
So I began to pray.

Just one date was all it took.
She let me know she wanted more.
Even as we slipped in my door.
She give me that special look.

Then I finally saw the light.
I needed to come on strong too.
That was it. I was no fool.
Just what was needed to make it right.

Years later, it is still strong.
One night of love has lasted till now.
We came on strong and made a vow.
It has lasted ohh, so long.

If this should happen to you.
Come on strong while you can.
Come on now, you’re a man.
It could last, if you want it to.

————————R.W. Johnson—–(2018)

Heart Strings

I once loved the music from the strings of your heart.
Now, that music is just tearing me apart.
The strings of my heart play I love you.
Your heart strings now play we are through.
Yours is such a hurtful and bitter sound.
Not like the music of the happiness I once found.
The music is saying soon you will be gone.
The saddest music number to come along.
The music of nature has dropped a note.
The music of the stars say “That’s all she wrote.”
One is the saddest experience you’ll ever know.
One is sad. That’s how the music goes.
Two is so much better than one.
That is, when the two can sound like one.
My heart strings now only bring tears.
The strings have rusted through the years.
A happier sound cannot be heard.
One is the only sound. The final word.
Oh, that my heart strings would ever sing again.
So I could feel all the joy from within.
The world would sing a happier tune.
Life music would heal the wound.
But, it seems that can never come true.
For I could never find another you.

———————————————–R.W. Johnson—–(2018)