A daisy for your love

It was a daisy by the road

Pretty and yellow in the sun

He stopped the car

and got out

and picked it

Then to my surprise

Ate it

Declaring he loved me

Funny way to show it

I laughed

But his fortune, he said,

had told him to eat a daisy

for his love

Odd fortune

For sure, he smiled

It was the summer of '74

and all was

youth and love

and big emotions

Kisses at red light stops

Hugs anywhere

And eyes only for each other

Beach days

Movie nights

Long extended partings

Forty-two years since that summer

Forty two years you are my love

Maybe there was something to that

fortune after all...

I look out on the day

And see a daisy in the sun

It bows in the wind

But maybe it is acknowledging

My thanks