Jerene

To My First Love

Do you know that your birthday is always the first to be marked on my calendar - every year without miss?

Almost a decade later I still can\'t bear the thought of something happening to you, not even in dreams.

 

I don\'t dream of you much but when I do it takes me right back to all those seasons I had loved you,

All of which you despised me in.

 

Autumn is my favourite season,

It\'s also the season I fell in love with you.

 

Do you know that you were the reason I started writing poems?

You are my very first muse, and I have written countless poems about you.

 

Did you think you would find a purer form of love?

Was I unlovable or were you just afraid?

 

Still unaware of the punishment I had to endure from others because I already had my first love,

Why was I forced to face those consequences when you weren\'t even mine?

 

- JJ